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Chase Adam Founder, Watsi

Shana Fisher High Line Venture Partners and Board Partner, Andreessen Horowitz

David Lee Founder, SV Angel

Apoorva Mehta Founder, Instacart

Kathryn Minshew Founder, The Muse

Zach Sims Founder, Codecademy

Fred Wilson Partner, Union Square Ventures

Kevin is an successful angel investor and an influencer in the techs space. Not to mention that every company that he has worked with have nothing but good things to say about him.

Google currently employees more than 20,000 people. I'm sure at this point they have plenty of engineers. A couple guys with some sense of design will not hurt the bottom line but have huge potential to add some much needed polish to Google's social initiatives.

/2 cents

If the damages were $2 and not $200,000 would you still think an 18 month sentence is justified ?

I would guess that most people would think not.

So the true cost of the damage is a significant factor in assessing the appropriate punishment

i highly doubt Google will comply. The only possible out come i see is Google setting up shop outside France's jurisdiction.

I guess the team turned it down in the hopes Path will be many times the offer. I just don't see how an iPhone app can worth more than $120 million. I think the most successful app would be angry birds, but i doubt even the most optimistic valuation would put them over one billion.

There would be an advantage to being the only company not to accept the funds. i imagine the press and standing out in the herd might be well worth passing on the 150k.

Plus i think others angles and VCs will through money at you knowing you turned down the easy money.