Paul Carr Lives up to His Curmudgeonly Accent

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There’s just something about Brits. Even when they’re being upbeat they sound like grumpy old farts. Paul Carr, former journalist and now TechCrunch staffer is no exception – he gets away with being grumpy because his writing is…. awesome. As a journalist there are people who’s writing, for whatever reason, just resonates with me – Carr is one of those.

Anyway – moving on from a paragraph of over-the-top flattery, I came across a video the other day that included not only Carr, but also Gary Vaynerchuk, the naturally caffeinated founder of WineLibraryTV and social media evangelist and extrovert.

In the video – the two discuss whether or not social media is overrated. Given my recent post eviscerating social media gurus, it seemed timely to post this video for your Friday enjoyment and edification.

  • Matt

    Relating to your tweets on the 2nd December.
    Ben, I recognise your comments regarding freshdesk as utterly nonsensical.  Attacking a company because they exploited a gap in the market (after Zendesk raised prices) is healthy competition – but I guess Zendesk don’t like competition.The main factor in myself choosing Freshdesk over zendesk was cost – the simplicity of Freshdesk outweighs that of zendesk, and prices are approximately 50% cheaper.Bad mouthing a company turns customers away – not make them join you idiot!  Did you get approval from your employees before posting or did you do this off your own back?

    • http://www.zendesk.com Dave, Zengage Editor

      While we love Ben, he isn’t an employee and only freelanced for us a bit last year. Enjoy using Freshdesk.