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Valleywag and Steve Jobs

by Scott on June 14, 2007

It’s amazing to me to note how much Valleywag has become a “must-read”. Almost everyone I know reads Valleywag on a daily basis and even those that won’t admit it later give themselves away with a “I heard that…” quote that came right off of the Valley’s gossip rag. Even more amazing is how often the rumors are right. Now that we all read it, I guess that means many more tipsters and people to correct the mistakes.

While I’ve been thinking about the Valleywag phenomenon lately, I got an up close and personal reminder on my drive home yesterday. I was driving 280 north and a Silver Mercedes SL 55 passed me. I’m a fan of that car (actually, I lust after it), so I paid attention. Then I noticed the license plate was missing and in its place was a bar code. Hey, I read about that on Valleywag – everyone was stealing Steve Jobs plates, so they put a bar code on instead. Was that Steve Jobs? Well traffic changed and I was able to pass him and it was indeed Steve Jobs. If it wasn’t for valleywag, I probably wouldn’t have taken a second look, but well, Nick Denton has turned me into a valley-star-stalker.

P.S. SL 55′s must be the standard issue for valley execs, at least 4 high level execs at Yahoo drive them. Maybe one day…

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  • blah

    how sad scott, is this the goal of your life? to drive a mercedes sl55? stop by my cube and i’ll write you a check for one so you can die in peace.

  • http://www.scottgatz.com/ Scott

    to anonymous commenter #2, I’ll happily take that check, just let me know your cube #…

    And a SL55 is hardly the goal of my life. But it would be a nice car to ride in on my way to life’s goals…

  • http://autos.yahoo.com/ Evan

    Scott,

    There is an SL65 now. If you’re into cars, you should check out Y! Autos sometime.

    To be fair, we used to have a Y! shortcut for “SL55″, but something about editorial rules or minimum CTR … you know how it is. So we couldn’t keep it in our IY feed. Such is life.

  • http://premski.com Prem

    This is awesome. Call me a fanboy, but this is not about the mercedes, but STEVE JOBS……………..I would’ve frozen at the wheel, if i were in your shoes. Glad for you!

  • http://hautingthunder.wordpress.com Maurice

    shurly you a good second hand Ferrari (chose one of the cyrently out of favor ones and its an investment)

    German super cars are a bit Socialist orker for my taste :-)

  • jkb

    55 is so 2003. 65 is where its at. check out CL65 and S65 on yahoo lot :)

  • anonymous

    You’ve GOT to be joking me right?
    They’re all a bunch of scum bags..
    Seriously….. They’d trash you in a MINUTE scott……

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