Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Peering into Todd Blue's cranium.

The web site http://www.louisvilleky.com/ seems to be making strides toward justifying its "pulse of the city" claim. Lamb's account of an oligarch in waiting and his variable communication skills touches an appropriate note of Kurtz ... but I may be giving Blue too much credit.

Turning Blue – Todd Reminds Activists “People need to get a life.”, by Cindy Lamb

Trying to contact Todd Blue for a comment or suggest an interview has been difficult but not without it’s enlightening and frustrating moments over the past seven months. I’m trying to make sense from a volatile email I received a week ago from Cobalt Ventures CEO Todd Blue, so the following timeline leading to the outburst is hopefully therapeutic for this scribe.

3 comments:

Iamhoosier said...

I know that he'll never see this but..

Mr. Blue,
I believe that I qualify as a "risk taker". You are full of shit.

Sincerely,
Mark Cassidy

Jeff Gillenwater said...

Mark's right.

In believing that their "entrepreneurial" trajectories have anything to do with what the average "risk taker" faces, Fischer and Blue share the same peapod on what might as well be a garden on Uranus.

Jeff Gillenwater said...

Of general interest, here's a quick comparison by Brian Tucker showing how poor ol' Blue's case was handled as compared to a similar one concerning an owner not so well connected.


Frank Faris versus Todd Blue: Louisville’s two-tier system of preservation justice