"I don't know if people are making it work better now but it has become more of a trendy thing and you have things like the Thank You group [aid through sales of consumer goods] and Who Gives a Crap [fundraising through toilet paper sales] and all of these other great companies that are really clever and are doing really well".
I get it that this Benjamin guy had some kind of backwards disease and saw no colour, creed nor cripple – which was lucky for you I must say – but if you wouldn't mind I'd like to cut through the crap a bit here.
Anyone who said, "Hey, I know horse-drawn carts are slow and inconvenient and involve wading through a lot of crap, but people are nostalgic for a simpler time, so let's call off the race to make a greener car and replace it with a buggy revolution" would be laughed out of Elon Musk's office.
"Driving into an indoor parking lot to scurry up backstairs to a skyway that takes you through a building of crap shops to another skyway, to another, to another, to an elevator into your little couchless room where you wait for freaks like me to tell you sob stories?" The events unfold over 24 hours, and the director, Joe Calarco, notches the tension up bit by bit.
That said, McClure told me that, while referrals have helped it to find a ton of interesting startups — and avoid sorting through a lot of crap — he also recognized that he's probably missed a few that might not have been part of his network.
We lived through a lot of crap and we didn't know any better.
This industry is an endurance race and you have to go through a lot of crap to make your goals happen.
They sell her tough exterior so well that even though Veronica has been through a pile of crap, you don't pity her – which is good, because she doesn't want it anyway".
So I do sit through a lot of crap because that's what the job is - sitting through the major movies, good and bad, and rendering a thoughtful opinion afterward.
We thought it would be cool to have a site without censorship, where all the artists are handpicked by us so you don't have to trudge through a ton of crap.
