Tara Hunt, one of Jimmy's old friends Options

[thekohser]

I stumbled across this video today, an interview between Tara Hunt and Jimmy Wales. (Thanks to what appears to be a botched editing job, you'll want to let the video run for about 40 seconds before paying attention.)

Ms. Hunt describes Jimmy as one of her friends and heroes, though it's been so long since they last chatted, she thought he still lived in San Francisco, unaware that (Golden Acres) Florida is where he puts down roots now.

I got to researching just what Tara Hunt does for a living, and it's difficult to understand how she pays the bills. She apparently identifies as a "consultant", running a website called HorsePigCow.com, which according to Alexa reaches about one-half the people and garners about one-fifth the page views that Wikipedia Review does.

She claims to have founded Citizen Agency, but then left it in early 2009, and they haven't blogged about themselves since October 2007.

When Tara and Jimmy were both living in San Francisco, they "could never see each other there", but they would meet up in Paris or London, at conferences and such.

Seriously, what is the means of income for someone like Tara Hunt? I didn't spy a wedding band.

Other tidbits:

04:10 -- Jimmy Wales: "I have a friend who is a TV host in Saudi Arabia. And she..."

05:16 -- Jimmy Wales' copy of the book, The Victorian Internet, was given to him by Marc Andreesen. Marc used to date his co-founder of Ning, Gina Bianchini, whom we've discussed here before, but has recently stepped down from Ning... into Marc's venture capital firm.

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[carbuncle]

Although I spend a good deal of time railing against marketing and consumerism, I am by profession an Online Marketing professional and, well, a consumer to the nth degree.

Anyone who seems to spend all of their time going to conferences and hanging out with bold type internet names but seems not to actually do anything is usually in marketing or PR, in my experience.

See this 2009 article about her remarkably successful start-up, coming real soon now...

[thekohser]

See this 2009 article about her remarkably successful start-up, coming real soon now...

And Tara's partner at the soon-to-be Shwowp is Jerome Paradis:

Our founder, Jerome Paradis wrote his first program at 7 years old. He chose the name of its company, Paradivision, when he was 12. Jerome knew at a young age which career was right for him.

When Jerome was 12, arcades were popular. He passed many hours playing video games. He felt that Activision was making the best console games at the time. Inspired, Jerome decided to name his future company Paradivision. It is funny since we are now developing social games and Facebook applications with playful elements.