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Every time I see U.S. soccer star Landon Donovan, I’m reminded of someone else. But who?
Then this morning, watching his World Cup goal against Slovenia, it hit me. He looks like a young John Saxon.
After perusing still photos of the two, I see less similarity. But anyway, that’s who I was thinking of. John Saxon, the actor.
What do you think? I dunno. Maybe it’s just the hair.
Of course, you have to be old enough to remember a young John Saxon. He’s 73 now, according to Wikipedia. And, by the way, Saxon is his stage name. He was born Carmine Orrico.
In the wake of two attractive young females (the Texas cheerleader, the Belgian soccer fan) getting trashed in social media because they posed with and posted photos of themselves with their big game trophy kills, someone named Jay Branscomb posted this on his Facebook page. This would be pretty…
Was it only two days ago when I got so annoyed at seeing John McCain on CNN -- again? Yes, I turned off his ravings and accusations against Jay Carney, but I also dashed off a note to CNN about how unhappy I was with their constantly featuring McCain. Not that it…
It's likely I've forgotten, but I don't recall the last World Cup generating as much interest in the United States as this one is getting. The advertising is everywhere, and beautifully done. All the sportscasters are talking about it, obviously, but so are the news people. Even John Stewart and…
Abso-freakin-lutely. Both gorgeous. Hey, Landon could play John in a John Saxon biopic! Oh wait…
Actually, I was just googling Landon Donovan John Payne to see if anyone else saw the resemblance! Nice to see I’m not alone.
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College football recruiting is often a rat race. That's why you hear stories of guys like Ohio State's Urban Meyer diligently keeping up with recruits via text message. Hustle points count toward a national championship.
But Nick Saban does not share this sentiment. He hasn't won four national championships -- including three at Alabama -- by debasing himself with novelty technology.
Forget Snapchat and Uber. This man has never even sent a text message. Not to a recruit, not to a co-worker. Not even to his wife.
And he plans on keeping it that way.
"I do get text messages, and I do read them,” Saban said last week to The Wall Street Journal . “I just don’t know how to send them back.”
Texting isn't the only modern luxury Saban eschews. The man has seen how much time his wife spends responding to email, and he's not about to throw away his time into a value-less frivolity. "If you don't send any, you don't get any," he says.
Saban's disdain for technology extends to Google, a mysterious entity whose purpose he has yet to pin down.
“I don’t know what you would do,” he said last month, according to the WSJ. “I don’t do any of that stuff.”
Again, these are quotes from arguably the best coach in college football, not Drunk Uncle .
At the same time, it's hard to fault Saban for how he runs his life. In fact, given his line of work, it's something of a minor miracle. At 63 years old, Saban isn't exactly a freak of nature for staying off email and refusing to text. And in the business world, this isn't unheard of among top-level executives.
But Saban's attitudes are unique because his career is built on his ability to recruit high schoolers and foster connections with college students. Those are two age groups whose daily lives are intertwined with technology -- Pew notes that the average teen was sending 60 text messages per day, in addition to other online activity, according to the WSJ.
There are some theories about Saban's tech aversion that hold weight, all of which may be true. One is that he isn't tech-resistant at all -- he's simply focused on efficiency. Saban may not text, but he was one of the first college coaches to adopt Skype in recruiting practices.
Why Skype but not text or email? That leads into the second theory: Saban understands the value of building connections, and he believes face-to-face conversations and handshakes have a greater impact than sending impersonal lines of text.
In other words, Saban gravitates to the best resources at his disposal. It's not that text or email scare him off. It's that neither one is good enough for Saban.
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It was just over a year ago that I sat in a dive bar, at 9am, watching the United States play Algeria in the World Cup. That was the game where Landon Donovan scored that amazing goal with like 4 seconds left to lift the US to the next round. Landon’s goal was the second most exciting part of my morning…
See, I was watching the match with these two guys I had met a few nights earlier, when Josh Knowles (now running Pivotal Labs ) so kindly introduced us. They were Jared Hecht and Steve Martocci , the founders of GroupMe .
Truth be told, I don’t even recall what we talked about — it was the energy of the conversation that I remember. It was so clear that these guys were for real: the passion, intelligence, maturity (Jared was 23 at the time, now a grownup at 24), and vision all stood out. There was no question I wanted to invest in these guys…
Their story was easy to understand. They met years earlier as fans touring with the Disco Biscuits, a jam band that was started at UPenn, where I went to school, so I knew the band well. Their friendship grew, they knew they wanted to work together one day, and then they jumped at the chance when the TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon came to town.
Jared and Steve wanted to be able to communicate with all their friends, quickly, all at once. They jumped in and built the product that they wanted. They were their own super users. They solved their own problem. And they did it with energy, elegance and fun. They were themselves the whole time, and they wore it on their sleeves. They even had a working demo that they used to communicate with investors. That was slick.
What I liked about Jared and Steve was that they were insanely confident yet humbly aware of the challenges, all at the same time. They knew what the product would look like, but more importantly, they knew what the product would feel like. Their intensity was palpable and you wanted to be around them. And they channeled this energy and vision into building a unique culture both in and around their company.
That is why, over the past year they’ve built a world-class team, built a world-class product, and built an amazing syndicate of investors and advisors. It’s been so satisfying being part of it. Congrats to Brandon, Steve, Pat, Jeremy, Cameron, Tara, Ajay,the dude with the long hair, and the rest of the GroupMe team. You worked incredibly hard and built a winning product culture in the heart of NYC. The engineering talent and product culture at GroupMe was a major differentiator in a crowded space.
Today’s good news is particularly sweet for me for another reason — it’s my first exit as an

angel investor

. What a cool feeling. And it reaffirms that core lesson that everyone repeats, because it’s true: invest in great people. First and foremost. Work with people you like and believe in and who get you revved up. The rest will fall into place. Experiencing this alongside betaworks, Lerer Ventures , First Round Capital , ThriveCapital, SV Angel , Founder Collective , David Cohen , Josh Stylman and Peter Hershberg, and more was awesome.
The partnership with Skype makes a lot of sense, and GroupMe’s future is very bright. I’m thrilled the company will be staying in NYC, continuing to build out its vision of changing the way people communicate and get together. Teaming up with Skype and its 175 million users is an amazing way to achieve this goal.
Great win for the NYC tech scene. And couldn’t have happened to a better group of people.

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