Take That, Zuck: App.net Founder Raises More Than $700,000
App.net Founder and CEO Dalton Caldwell is not a fan of Facebook, which claims that his product is too similar to the social network's app center. So after Caldwell wrote some not-so-kind words for Facebook Co-Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, he broke away from the site and let the public decide if App.net — a paid social platform — is a worthwhile endeavor. Hoping to crowdsource fundraising efforts and raise $500,000 to get the company off the ground, Caldwell far surpassed that.
App.net Founder and CEO Dalton Caldwell is not a fan of Facebook, which claims that his product is too similar to the social network’s app center. So after Caldwell wrote some not-so-kind words for Facebook Co-Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, he broke away from the site and let the public decide if App.net — a paid social platform — is a worthwhile endeavor. Hoping to crowdsource fundraising efforts and raise $500,000 to get the company off the ground, Caldwell far surpassed that.
Our sister site, Inside Facebook, reports that thanks to generous donors, App.net
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