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March 27, 2008

TechCrunch DeadPooled My Company And All I Got Was This Lousy iPod Shuffle

Mark Hendrickson

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Who says nothing good comes from getting deadpooled?

Blake Machado was the winner of a YouTube announcement contest we held a couple weeks back. He was the first to guess correctly that YouTube would come out with some new APIs to spread its influence over the web. The prize was an iPod shuffle.

Turns out YouTube’s announcement was particularly poignant for Blake given his connection to the previous deadpooled Stage6. As he revealed to us after winning:

Ironically guessing/winning this is bitter-sweet. I was the PM of
Stage6 and this is an area where we had planned to beat YouTube to the
punch and gain some, hopefully, extremely positive results. We would
have as it was scheduled for Feb. release — oh well.

So how’d we comfort him in his time of need? Etched a reminder of that deadpooling into his “consolation” prize, of course. You’re welcome, Blake.

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  1. CARversation.com

    March 27th, 2008 at 6:55 pm

    AHAHAAHAHAHAAH

  2. Alan

    March 27th, 2008 at 7:02 pm

    You may already have noticed, but that first link on the word “deadpooled” leads to a 404 page.

    Anyway, nice consolation there, heh.

  3. John Hager

    March 27th, 2008 at 7:15 pm

    haha, you should have gotten this laser etched on the ipod shuffle:
    http://www.etchstar.com/art/50.....s-Elephant

  4. Aaron

    March 27th, 2008 at 7:27 pm

    You can deadpool my non-existent company, and sent me an iPod…

  5. Everett

    March 27th, 2008 at 7:44 pm

    Very cool and happy that tech peeps have a sense of humor!

  6. Balke Macho

    March 27th, 2008 at 7:49 pm

    Haha thanks again guys. The shuffle is great — been using it working out.

    -Blake

  7. Michael Arrington

    March 27th, 2008 at 8:14 pm

    Is your name really Balke Machado? How does a name like that happen?

  8. Balke Macho

    March 27th, 2008 at 8:30 pm

    Wow. Just, wow. =P My name is Blake Machado, not Balke.

    And I turned that into an online alias, Balke Macho.

    -Blake

  9. Chester

    March 27th, 2008 at 8:46 pm

    Congrats Blake! At least you got a freakin Shuffle! :-)

    - Chester

  10. Blake

    March 27th, 2008 at 8:57 pm

    Thanks, Chester.

    PS. I’m going to steal your technique and link to my linked in.

  11. bob cobb

    March 27th, 2008 at 9:16 pm

    It really sucks, stage6 was one of the best sites out there. I wish they would have atleast sold to someone else

  12. Mourning Stage6

    March 27th, 2008 at 9:20 pm

    Stage6 was an incredible site, light years beyond most of their competition (and that includes YouTube). It’s amazing that they had to pull the plug like this.

  13. David

    March 27th, 2008 at 9:42 pm

    You deadpooled my company (Livelocker). How about a free ipod for all deadpooled companies? :-)

  14. AnonTroll

    March 27th, 2008 at 9:47 pm

    Ha ha, you’ve been TechPunched.

  15. Michael Arrington

    March 27th, 2008 at 10:08 pm

    ah, sorry Blake. Or Balke.

  16. Debbie Davies

    March 27th, 2008 at 10:22 pm

    Why did you buy the red one?

  17. ineedhits Australia

    March 27th, 2008 at 10:33 pm

    Is this where previous deadpooled companies hide? In the techcrunch comments? :)

  18. David

    March 27th, 2008 at 10:55 pm

    ineedhits: We don’t have much else to do these days ;)

  19. Grem

    March 28th, 2008 at 12:01 am

    Wow! iPod shuffle….wat a nice gift.

  20. Asad Akbar

    March 28th, 2008 at 1:17 am

    TC should hold some kind of dinner or get together for everyone deadpooled. Heh it would be an interesting reason to get everyone in the room.

  21. Jarrod

    March 28th, 2008 at 6:38 am

    Thats cold blooded!

  22. RONLG

    March 28th, 2008 at 7:09 am

    @21: Welcome to the tech industry!

  23. daniel

    March 28th, 2008 at 8:00 am

    http://www.geocities.com/poi243

  24. Dawn Martin

    March 28th, 2008 at 9:03 am

    heh Blake congrats.

  25. Joshuac

    March 28th, 2008 at 10:09 am

    Too funny. Congrats Balke.

    Long live the hamster!

  26. mp

    March 28th, 2008 at 11:37 am

    Gotta start selling “TechCrunch DeadPooled My Company…” T-shirts

  27. tom hessert

    March 28th, 2008 at 4:00 pm

    Campaign’s like this would be a great product placement advertising strategy, and a new source of ad revenue for blogs. The photo and story behind the placement of the Apple logo is very impactful from a brand perspective. I hope that you sold this campaign to Apple’s marketing team, or will think of doing a campaign like this in the future. Let us know if you convince Apple or another company to sign on. Oh, I am just realizing that it would be very similar to pay per post. Take that all back. Bad idea.

  28. Dawn Martin

    March 28th, 2008 at 10:14 pm

    “Congrats Blake! At least you got a freakin Shuffle!”

    Haha we should make T-shirts, “I tried to buy stage6 and make it more awesome. Instead all I got was this freakin’ Shuffle.”

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