{"id":4556,"date":"2007-07-09T18:31:39","date_gmt":"2007-07-09T23:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=4556"},"modified":"2007-07-09T21:12:09","modified_gmt":"2007-07-10T02:12:09","slug":"and_the_worst_t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/09\/and_the_worst_t\/","title":{"rendered":"…TiE Seattle Does Not, Unfortunately."},"content":{"rendered":"

I was getting ready to post a friendly, pushy reminder about a fantastic event which is taking place tomorrow, in DC<\/strong><\/a> at Tony and Joe’s (read: Sequoia ;)– but when I went to Vinay’s excellent website<\/a>, something else<\/em> caught my attention.<\/p>\n\n

Something wrong<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

All of us have at some point or another, met self righteous folk, very often rich entrepreneurs, who act like they’re God’s gift to the rest of us. Here’s where they become even more obnoxious<\/strong> if you can imagine what that might look like. TiE Seattle<\/a> approached me last year to do a story on them for a prominent CA Indian paper which I promptly did. I didn’t play any games with them, didn’t dangle them for weeks. They asked, said their story had not been told before, I promptly, gladly did a story on them. Period.<\/blockquote>\n\n

\"Why<\/a><\/p>\n\n

Afterward, at every single TiE event I went to, their president (who shares his name with a Bollywood superstar) would drop as I’d be right in the middle of dinner, and demand right away, “So when are you doing another story on us?” At first I thought he was making small talk, then I thought he was just some overeager zealot but then I heard from many people that his malaise was something else. He just suffered from a bad case of pushy Swagger, EGO and a of lack of good manners. So I did what every journalist does. Ignored his prattle and stopped going to TiE Seattle…<\/blockquote>\n\n
I approached TiE asking them if they’d be kind enough to circulate an email to their member base telling them about Vinay and the bone marrow drive for him in Seattle<\/strong>. Just an email. I didn’t ask them for money or anything else. Just an email. 15 days out and what do I get? Zilch. Not even the courtesy of a, “Right now we’re too busy counting our dollars and won’t be able to email our members. Thank you for asking.”<\/strong><\/blockquote>\n\n
Is it too much to ask to help a dying man?<\/strong> [SeattlePI<\/a>]<\/blockquote>\n\n

Can I buy a round of WTFs, straight up? I’ve been called some…interesting things on SM these past few days, but maybe one of the trolls should have hurled “naive<\/strong>” my way. How could anyone say no to this cause? I can understand why the blogger, Priyanka Joshi, whom I quoted above, said this:<\/p>\n\n

Corp-Social Responsibility? Hahaha![SeattlePI<\/a>]<\/blockquote>\n\n

Would it have been THAT difficult to forward Priyanka’s email to their members? Maybe there are good souls in the Seattle chapter who would’ve wanted to help Vinay. It’s a shame that certain people are too…I don’t know what to put here…to help another human being.<\/p>\n\n

Disclaimer for those who need it<\/em>:<\/p>\n\n

I am not denigrating TiE<\/a>, its chapters or even its Seattle members. I’m just echoing another bloggers shock and disappointment in whomever decided that a wee email wasn’t important enough to pass on…okay?<\/em><\/p>\n\n

I mean, it’s not like I sent the following words heavenwards…<\/p>\n\n

So, in spirit of human dignity, as I pray for Vinay tonight, I’m also saying a prayer for TiE Seattle. “May TiE’s swagger and a lack of concern for other people be replaced by genuine compassion for the rich and the middle class alike<\/strong>.” Amen. [SeattlePI<\/a>]<\/blockquote>\n\n

…but that’s only because I didn’t think of them, first. Amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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