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Video: The eBuddy Heist

Boris Written on February 5, 2008 – 1:07 pm
Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten,

After last nights news about the €6.5 million investment in eBuddy we decided to sneak our way into the eBuddy offices this morning to see if we could find the money. We did find SOME money AND Onno Bakker (co-founder together with Jan-Joost Rueb and Paulo Taylor) of eBuddy. He told us a little bit about the investment and how they celebrated and how that felt the next day.

Check the shocked faces on the employees as we rush in and shout “Where is the money!”.

I’m glad we didn’t get shot OR arrested. Maybe we should make a series of unexpected interviews like this. Check out our earlier Michael Arrington Heist.

I hope you like that post!

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13 comments/trackbacks to “Video: The eBuddy Heist”

  1. Jul 25, 2008: Ebuddy mobile IM client downloaded 5 million times

    [...] to sneak into the eBuddy office to see if we could find the money back in February, check the video here. I hope you like that post! The Next Web Blog covers start-up news from all over the world (not [...]

  2. By Mathijs van Abbe on Feb 5, 2008

    Cool! nice video…

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  3. By Menno van der Sman on Feb 5, 2008

    Nice! Next time wear skimasks ;)

    Reply

  4. By Tessa on Feb 5, 2008

    Good plan! Expect others to make a surprise visit to TheNextWeb office!

    Reply

  5. By CJC on Feb 5, 2008

    HAHA!

    Classic!

    In South Africa, I reckon you’d have been shot though guys.. seriously ;)

    The thought of ANY company investing that kind of money into ANYthing South African, just..well.. ye.. it wouldn’t happen.

    SA Went mad over Shuttleworth getting R3.4 Billion Rands for this Certificate Company a couple years ago. Poor deep dark Africa.

    I honestly wonder how long it’s going to take all these ‘renound SA bloggers/www entrepenurers to leave for green pastures?

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  6. By Paul on Feb 6, 2008

    This is classic. You really should make a series of this when new companies get funded. Don’t worry, you won’t get shot. None of these companies have enough money to arm themselves pre-financing.

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  7. By Remmiesmith on Feb 6, 2008

    Muffled sound, blurry image and zero added value. I couldn’t even hear what was being said because of the mumbling dutch accents.

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  8. By CJC on Feb 6, 2008

    HAHA! Classic Paul!

    Let’s take a gander at what Paul has to offer on the http://www..

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  9. By Paul on Feb 6, 2008

    Remmie, if nothing else, amusement value. Cheers!

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  10. By CJC on Feb 6, 2008

    Remmie, they are Brits you retard ;) (or something like that)

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  11. By Remmiesmith on Feb 6, 2008

    I am all for entertainment, even sometimes on a serious blog. But I’m thinking it could be much better executed with somewhat more interesting questions and a better mic/camera.

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  12. By CJC on Feb 6, 2008

    Hey man, ‘the next web’ didn’t get the 6 million cash injection. Give them a break!

    Reply

  13. By ashton on Jun 10, 2008

    i think it is very good

    Reply

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