Yesterday viral video star Aleksey Vayner pushed himself back up out of the obscurity that was starting to overtake him by talking with the New York Post. Today he’s given his first sit down interview since the story broke—with Michael J. de la Merced of the New York Times. It seems that he’s taking a leave of absence from Yale to do promotional media interviews until this whole thing blows over.
We still think Aleksey’s going about this the wrong way. Aleksey—you’ve got to run with this. You are “pure gold”—as one of the investment bankers who forwarded your email around put it. Drop the lawyer and get an agent. Someone who can book you as a guest host on Saturday Night Live. Someone who can get you a book deal—Impossible Is Nothing: The Aleksey Vayner Guide to Success At Everything. Someone who…
Look. Let’s have lunch. We’ve got some great ideas. Stop talking to the newspaper guys. Stick with the folks what made you—the interwebs. We’ve got a great future together. We can feel it.
The Resume Mocked ‘Round the World [DealBook]
Posted by , Oct 20, 2006 11:51AM
Aleksey in today's Dealbook: “I have two rules,” he said. “One, I will never lose your money. And two, when in doubt, refer to rule No. 1.”
Warren Buffett's decades-old adage on investing: "Rule Number One: Don't lose money. Rule Number Two: Never forget Rule Number One."
Nice to see Aleksey was sufficiently chastened by the whole getting-caught-fabricatin' thing to change his ways.