revisiting transparency with a vc
long, long, ago… it seems when i was putting more thoughtful pieces together in this space, i bounced off transparency as a business advantage, and did so in a typically oblique sort of way.
i’m a fan of transparency, in general, and the story about vw’s phaeton factory [car and driver] provided a tangent, but i never really got back to it as a thinking piece. this probably won’t be either, i just want to move the thread up many months, with a nod to fred, who left me this hook to hang myself on….
i’ve explored the problems with lack of transparency here in some gory detail – mostly related to diebold and the electronicification of elections (theme song: elections should be transparent) and government, most particularly the department of justice, under the fearless and righteous leadership of john ashcroft. and that brings me full-circle, since i stumbled into fred’s blog via jon stewart and john ashcroft, and i was so moved, i even left a comment.
so, fred is a vc, and i try to be a positive kinda guy in general, so this post may not have a lot of original thought in it, but i’d like to wrap up on a positive note, and remind everyone that transparency is working (or so it seems) for magnatune, and i did just dig into that again.