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Very interesting and cool story. But that article was dreadfully written. Just because you're writing about a teenager doesn't mean you have to write like a teenager.


It suggests a lot about print journalism when an article in Forbes clearly hasn't received even basic proofreading, much less proper editorial vetting.

It's a cool story but my experience reading it was diminished by the grade school sentence structure and bizarre grammar and punctuation errors. Stray commas in Forbes! Seriously now.


This is not a Forbes article, it's from their knock-off "contributors" platform.


I think that effectively the contributors platform is Forbes now.

Unfortunately that doesn't pull the contributors up to the magazine's level as much as it pulls the magazine down to the contributors level.


Which also suggests a lot about modern journalism, print or otherwise.


Forbes.com/sites is a bunch of blogs with what seems to be minimal editorial oversight.

I guess a magazine brand probably isn't worth so much these days.


Agreed. There's a picture of him, and it says it's of him at demo day, but the article doesn't mention anything about Y Combinator. Very confusing.


It's Capital Factory's demo day.


Yep -- absolutely, right, Cody! Thanks for the comment; Hope you're doing well!


I caught that Capital Factory Demo Day. I have to say that I was intrigued by Helpjuice and was disappointed to see it just disappear. I'm glad to hear that I was wrong and things are growing well. Congrats.

If you find yourself back in Austin, drop me a note. I'll buy the first round of coffee to hear about how things are going. :)


Hi! Thanks for the comment, very happy to hear that.

I'll be in Austin in 2 weeks. There's no way I'm letting you buy a first round of coffee. Rakija's on me.

Would you mind emailing me at emil@helpjuice.com ? I'd love to connect with you.


Come on, it wasn't that bad. If anything, the writing was heartfelt. I rather liked it.

I'm not defending Forbes though. Like, eww.




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