there are people you meet and forget instantly while still sitting right infront of them. and there are people you meet and you know you can call yourself lucky for getting an opportunity to meet such a person.
yesterday this happened to me. i had the great honor to sit and talk for two hours to martin varsavsky, the companero behind fon, evengelist of the wi-fi-world and embodyment of evil to all the big telecom-suckers. the basic idea of fon is pretty easy: you share your wi-fi-bandwith at home, become a fonero, and surf for free at any other foneros hotspot. so far fon has over 25 000 hotspots already and the number is rising every minute. its the @daption of grassroots-democracy, turning fon into the volksempfänger of tomorrow. i cant reveal any more details yet due to the portrait i am writing in the next couple of days, but here is a brief summery of martins life, the blueprint of a 21st century entrepreneur:
martin left argentina after the right-wing junta killed his cousin. he arrived at new york, age 16, where he set up his first company (real estate) while still at school. his second enterprise was an adventure into biotech, which happened because martin wouldnt buy all the nazi propaganda about aids being a form of gay cancer. so he invested and managed to come up with one of the first hiv-tests in history. in the nineties he started several phone- and internet-companies, sold most of them and is now ready and prepared to revolut the wi-fi-game. check his blog and fon.com.
let martin be our guiding light. join FON today and get rid off telecom and all those pay-per-minute-whores tomorrow.
hasta la victoria siempre
