{"id":890,"date":"2004-06-13T12:00:09","date_gmt":"2004-06-13T17:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/revisiting-transparency-with-a-vc\/"},"modified":"2004-06-13T12:00:09","modified_gmt":"2004-06-13T17:00:09","slug":"revisiting-transparency-with-a-vc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/revisiting-transparency-with-a-vc\/","title":{"rendered":"revisiting transparency with a vc"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>long,  long,  ago&#8230; it seems when i was putting more thoughtful pieces together in this space, i bounced off <a href=\"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2003\/10\/transparency_is_good_for_companies.html\">transparency<\/a> as a business advantage, and did so in a typically oblique sort of way.<\/p>\n<p>i&#8217;m a fan of transparency, in general, and the story about vw&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caranddriver.com\/article.asp?section_id=4&amp;article_id=7207&amp;page_number=1\" class=\"broken_link\">phaeton factory<\/a> [car and driver] provided a tangent, but i never really got back to it as a thinking piece.  this probably won&#8217;t be either, i just want to move the thread up many months, with a nod to <a href=\"http:\/\/avc.blogs.com\/\" class=\"broken_link\">fred<\/a>, who left me <a href=\"http:\/\/avc.blogs.com\/a_vc\/2004\/05\/transparency.html\" class=\"broken_link\">this<\/a> hook to hang myself on&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>i&#8217;ve explored the problems with lack of transparency here in some gory detail &#8211; mostly related to <a href=\"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2003\/10\/the_flipside_of_diebold_at_swarthmore.html\">diebold<\/a> and the electronicification of elections (theme song:  elections should be transparent) and government, most particularly the <a href=\"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/forcing_transparency_on_the_doj.html\">department of justice<\/a>, under the fearless and righteous leadership of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafeshops.com\/usingrights\/\" class=\"broken_link\">john ashcroft<\/a>.  and that brings me full-circle, since i stumbled into fred&#8217;s blog via <a href=\"http:\/\/avc.blogs.com\/a_vc\/2004\/06\/jon_stewart_via.html#comments\" class=\"broken_link\">jon stewart and john ashcroft<\/a>, and i was so moved, i even left a comment.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;d like to wrap up on a positive note, and remind everyone that transparency is working (or so it seems) for <a href=\"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/magnatune.html\" class=\"broken_link\">magnatune<\/a>, and i did just <a href=\"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/music_value_some_metrics.html\">dig into<\/a> that again.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bigpicture.typepad.com\/\" class=\"broken_link\">barry<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/avc.blogs.com\/\" class=\"broken_link\">fred<\/a>&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/avc.blogs.com\/\" class=\"broken_link\">fred<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/bigpicture.typepad.com\/\" class=\"broken_link\">barry<\/a>.  i think you guys are neighbors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>long, long, ago&#8230; 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&#8217;m a fan of transparency, in general, and the story about vw&#8217;s phaeton factory [car and driver] provided a tangent, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}