Philip Kaplan, the founder of ad network AdBrite Inc. and dot-com obit site F—–Company.com, joined Waltham- and Menlo Park-based Charles River Ventures recently.
The Wall Street Journal’s Venture Capital Dispatch has a Q&A with the entrepreneur-turned-VC. Kaplan, who recently developed a Twitter dating application, explains why F—–Company itself remains dead.
With (for example) General Motors, that’s not funny. I don’t think anyone thinks that’s funny. Back in 2000, people thought it was funny when these companies like a furniture site would spend more on shipping furniture than buying the original furniture. People thought that was funny. People have asked me to bring (F—edCompany) back, but I’ve moved on. Somebody put it best to me and said, ‘You know, at F—edCompany your job was evaluating companies and if you thought they were f—ed you wrote about it on the Internet.’ But now I’m doing that as a venture capitalist, I’m doing it more professionally.
After the jump, Kaplan stars in the YouTube video, “Death Metal Office Drumming.”
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