StreetEasy's ex-CEO built a Tribeca penthouse.
The Tribeca penthouse is the kind of luxury New York home that would draw lingering looks on StreetEasy. It’s fitting, given that it’s owned by Michael A. Smith, the real estate site’s co-founder and former chief executive.
https://www.crainsnewyork.com/real-estate/mcdonalds-targets-ex-streeteasy-ceos-tribeca-condo-demolition
Click. On goes the little light bulb.
Of course anon always surmised that tech billionaires don't become billionaires by giving away very sophisticated software. Anon surmised that they were monetized all the data they were collecting, somehow…for someone(s). Selling it to the marketplace?
No, sillies. The government (and its agents) have been paying them off to build surveillance mechanisms and to dress them up in cool "apps," games, porn sites, whatever. Each one a portal to, and spy for, the deep state.
Remember? Remember how it all began under Bill and Hillary Clinton? remember the ubiquitous AOL disks littering the streets (from just outside Langley, VA, of all places)? Remember Echelon? All of it - every last, fucking website and fragment of HTML - was a carefully planned op.
Cursed mother fuckers.