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I'm not even sure if I believe this.

10k works out to be 40 new contacts per business day( 5 days per week, 52 weeks minus 2 for vacation ) for a year. Let's assume this guy has been "at it" for 4 years. That's still 10 new contacts every day.

Nobody who has actual work to do is going to contact, establish rapport, communicate enough to know the contact would be valuable, and then most importantly, maintain the relationship with 10 NEW people every single working day for 4 years straight.

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I love how many of comments on this article have no idea who Brad Feld is, and nobody bothered to read his bio before deciding he's a spammer. He's one of the more famous tech entrepreneurs and investors. He's had companies acquired, sits on the board of a bunch of big companies, and runs TechStars. Networking is his job, and he's been doing it for over 20 years. If he wanted to run a spam newsletter (which he has no reason to do), he has the resources to use something way better than Gmail. ;)

"Famous" is a relative thing. You're the first person in a 75+ comment thread to admit to knowing who he is.

I know who he is. But whether he's famous is immaterial. You all are assuming that just because you can't imagine jobs that would require you to maintain a database of 10k contacts that there are none.

Actually, the complaint is quite the opposite, that people are "unfairly" assuming that he is working in a set of jobs where such a database makes sense.

Thanks for pointing this out. I've removed the spam claim.

I still stand by the research that makes it evident human beings can't maintain relationships with more than a couple hundred people at a time, and I doubt very much that Feld( or any other human being )is capable of even remembering a small fraction of the people on that list.

He is an investor. 10 people a day is not unreasonable. You might meet 4 teams of 4 people almost everyday pretty easily.

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