It seems like that my post from yesterday generated a bit of bad blood from Carlos Blanco. Not totally unexpected, though it wasn’t my intention. I was only offering my honest opinion about what I perceived as a pattern of uncalled-for attacks, but in any case the conclusion was that in this case he was right about what he said on the panel (even if the form was less than ideal).

I have posted a comment on Carlos’s website letting him know that I stand by my opinions, but my intention wasn’t to offend him, or to request an invitation at First Tuesday to speak, or to have him mention us at events, or whatever. I think that we are probably our own best representatives as we are the entrepreneurs that started the project, and in any case, I’m not sure how much value it’d be to have as your representative someone who’s said very publicly that he wouldn’t invest in you. It just doesn’t make much sense. We’re not looking for Carlos to become our de facto spokesperson or to use First Tuesday as our preferred launch forum, if that’s what he was concerned about.

In any case, this issue is dead for me. I have to focus on our launch and on our business, and not on exchanging emails or posts. So I’ll post here my response to Carlos, which I hope will put the matter to rest.

And as for his comments about my kissing up to Intercom, etc., I don’t think he understood the message. I hope that someone understood my somewhat esoteric reference to Gods 1.0 — it was to differentiate the Old Testament God (in my parlance, God 1.0) from the New Testament God (God 2.0). God 2.0 is much more collaborative and friendly, and a lot less judgmental and angry than his Old Testament counterpart. His vision is to share and invite as many people as possible to share paradise, rather than his Old Testament counterpart who was often very angry and only spoke with regard to his “chosen people”. My view is many of the so-called, often self-appointed Gods of Internet are more 1.0 than 2.0, both in their use of technology and in their outlooks. But maybe the metaphor was too much of a stretch . . . .
In any case, here’s my response to Carlos. I’m confident that he will post it on his site as well. (I’ve written it in Spanish since Carlos notes that maybe I don’t understand the language well enough.)

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Carlos:

Hablamos cuando quieras sin problema alguno — con alcohol o sin :). El objetivo de mi post no era hablar de ti — era reflexionar sobre una charla en la que tu eras uno de los ponentes y concluir que estaba de acuerdo contigo en tus comentarios. Si, he dicho que no me ha gustado mucho el comentario que hiciste en Loogic ni tu manera de tratar a la gente en ciertas ocasiones. (Por cierto, como bien dices, no era necesario hacer un post ni en repuesta a la mia ni tu comentario en Loogic) pero para mi es casi igual.

Para mi el tema ya está muerto.

Todos tenemos cosas mucho mas interesantes e importantes que hacer, y realmente nunca he pretendido ser un ponente en First Tuesday. Ya hemos hablado con todos los inversores y muchos de los bloggers, tanto aquí como en el extranjero, así que si vamos a First Tuesday es mas para ver la opinión general de los otros emprendedores/inversores que asisten.

Por otro lado creo que no has entendido bien el post y mis comentarios de Grupo Intercom, etc. y no has entendido por que he llamado al post “Gods 1.0″.

En cualquier caso mi intención no era provocar una discusión publica sobre nuestra relación profesional casi no existente, era hacer una reflexion sobre mi experiencia hasta el momento en el mundo de Internet en España — “the good, the bad and the ugly”, con VCs, con otros emprendedores de Internet, etc., todo como una reflexión de varios comentarios expuestos ayer, y repito — al final, la conclusión es que estaba de acuerdo contigo en muchos puntos.

Y como tienes tantas ganas de probar la web, espero que podamos tomar una cerveza donde podrías darme tu feedback sobre la versión beta publica que lanzaremos durante el mes de septiembre.

Por cierto si quieres alargar esta conversación, mejor que tomemos esta cerverza que mencionas en lugar de hacer mas posts. Cuando quieras quedamos.

Un saludo

Gary