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Recession Tales: Get laid off, start a car company

Original post made on Jun 4, 2010

Like many in Silicon Valley, Hong Quan was working away at a tech startup last year when layoffs left him without a job. "Why don't you start that car company you've been talking about?" he remembers his wife saying.

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Posted by eswierk
a resident of Old Mountain View
on Jun 4, 2010 at 8:14 am

Sounds pretty neat. Marketing innovative car technology shouldn't be left to the existing big automakers.

Of all people, though, Jay Leno should have told Mr. Quan that Prong is a really bad name for a car--especially a diminutive one--given the slang meaning. The jokes practically write themselves...

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Posted by Andy
a resident of Castro City
on Jun 8, 2010 at 3:07 pm

Great project this guy has going for him! I could envision a lot of fun in one of these with a liter bike motor.

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