From Sander's blog:
Why I Resigned From Vox Pop
I’m moving on from Vox Pop to take a job in alternative energy financing, building the winder water and waves systems of tomorrow.
Vox Pop’s total sales last year were $414K. I feel really good about where I’m leaving the company’s valuation.
Debi Ryan will be the new CEO. She’s been training with us to take over. She’s brilliant and nurturing, a true Queen Mother who it is delightful to work with. I’ve personally worked alongside her all week doing rehab on Vox Pop Cortelyou. She’s a hard worker and has a great track record of growing companies, and leaving them profitable at $17 MM a year.
I just want to say that the game has changed in this country, now that Obama is in office, I think certain hybrid systems of capitalism/social consciousness could be tried. It’s time to grab bigger “guns,” in a nonviolent way. I need a bigger platform on which to work. I’m projected to be managing a Bond Fund that is going to put $100 MM into alternative energy. Compare that to running a coffeehouse company that just pulled in $414K in sales. Sort of pales in comparison.
Vox Pop Inc. I love ya, but I just gave you five years of my life, I poured my sweat and blood and splinters of my own flesh in your wood, gutting and building that place with Ross and the help in 2004. Vox Pop Inc. I held you close in the divorce, I took care of you, I wouldn’t let you die, I was the keeper of the torch for you, our little bastard child. I made you profitable and robust, you can go off with Debi now.
I’m off.
I’m into creating the systems that will destory Exxon/Mobil.
Not through violence, but a divine nonviolent form of warfare: financial. Competition. Energy delivery that is cheaper than oil. We’ll create those companies, we will birth them, put them together, fund them, incubate them, and let the hatchlings go. We will put $100MM into the marketplace and be funding all kinds of alternative energy research and conventions. The time is now.
Sincerely,
Sander Hicks
PS: this is NOT effective immediately, I will continue to help with the direct work of rehabilitating Vox Pop Cortelyou, and tomorrow I will be back at work grouting the new bit of granite I laid today in the entrance way! Vox Pop is still in my blood, but a period of transition is indeed upon us. May God have mercy on our souls.
5 comments:
If that is your understanding of oil companies--the industry that has driven the world to technological, economic, and financial development, lifting humanity from poverty, sickness, and starvation--then good luck with that! Laughable.
vox pop is closed! i tried to get coffee there tonight, but there was a sign up saying that the health department made them shut down for not renewing their license. i guess they are still trying to encourage people to hang out there if they bring their own coffee. what a bummer.
It's closed because Sander Hicks didn't pay outstanding fines due to health violations. And being closed, they can't make the money to pay off the fines. Way to go, Sander.
I really don't know how Sander is going to "manage a Bond Fund that is going to put $100 MM into alternative energy" if he couldn't even manage a little coffee shop. He really let the ball drop on Vox Pop. He couldn't be bothered to acquaint himself with the health code before opening?
No one's going to give this jerk $100 Million. Not a chance. Sander is full of crap as usual.
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