Danny, 39, grew up in Cleveland where he left high school early to accept an academic scholarship to Cleveland State University. After earning his BA, Danny's creativity began to drive his academic and professional direction. He completed graduate coursework in music composition at Boston University, where he later joined the faculty, and studied at MIT's famed Media Lab. Danny's vision for combining art with commerce led him to develop several successful media and technology ventures. He is the founder, CEO and chief visionary for POPstick, a leader in innovating new media technologies. When Danny is out of the boardroom, he can be found writing and performing rock operas and symphonies. His musical talents have earned him four national composition awards.
Danny.......is this seasons Omorosa. hes there for purely TV reasons.. He may have a college degree.......but hes a total space cadet.
Any one of the three in the boardroom tonight couldve been fired. Danny was horrible, AND hes annoying. About 3 mins into his little song writing cheerleading kumbayah... that was it. If I were Mr Trump..........
I like that Danny TV character. He is brilliant and dresses eccentric, and over the top like Raj.
But I'm wondering if he likes girls.... Danny might really be more closer to the name of Dannielle. What if the producers put a gay guy into A3.
Trump kept reminding Todd that "This guy can be led.... you didn't have the leadership. And then he goes about firing Todd. (shoos him to get out of his boardroom.
Danny is a bit quirky, but I dont see him responsible for their failure tonight. His job was to come up with a marketing scheme...he did that...he cant be responsible because the P.M. didn't follow through.
I think Todd's firing was very justified.
Of course thats just my opinion....I could be wrong. (Dennis Miller)
"You might be the toughest little whacker. . .but in my world, you're about as worrisome as a cloudy day." (Dutch Dooley)
Danny is fine. I admire his quirkiness. He was a convenient scapegoat as Carolyn stated. The failure was due to leadership. Todd didn't lead very well... He was delegator and he just sat back thinking he'd be safe because Danny was "so out here...". He was wrong! I admire Kendra for speaking the truth and not following the herd.
In our local newspaper featured Danny today since he grew up here, and went to high school here not far from where I live now. I know people who graduated from that high school, so I'll have to ask them if they knew him. I'd bet he hasn't changed much.
The article said that contestants are allowed to respond only to e-mails submitted through NBC publicity, but then it went on to say that Danny watched the season premiere with friends in Boston.
They also quote a former saleman in Danny's PoPstick company as saying Danny is an enigmatic composer of music and software code, and he is "tyrannical, an egomaniac...all attributes of a genius."
I agree, though, that this guy was put in there for shock value, with absolutely no chance of actually making it all the way. I'm sure its great publicity for his company!
whidden said this in post #13 : Hey Beth, what's his popstick company do?
The first post says it's new media technologies, but that's kind of vague.
A checked back at the article, all it says is that POPstick, Inc. does some kind of online interactive advertising called POPgrams. Danny is the founder and CEO.
I wonder if he's to blame for all those annoying POP-up ads...if so then fire him, Donald!
Oh it looked to me like irratating advertising you see all over the net, short little interactive flash movies or game ads, like the roaches you see in that one add that asks you to shoot them, or the ads where they ask you to name the presidents dog, some gimmick to get you to click on the ad.
Oh man, I really hate Danny now!
quote:
Meeting marketers who are still doubtful about the potential of Internet invitations have probably never had a POPgram in their in-box. POPgrams, the creation of Boston-based POPstick Corp., are among the new breed of personalized, rich-media, interactive electronic invitations that — most important to planners — can be tracked and monitored.
POPstick has popped onto the radar screen of event marketers around the country, including those from Microsoft, Xerox, and Dictaphone, who are grabbing clients' attention with the company's Flash programming. The best way to get a feel for POPstick's gee-whiz factor is to view the POPgram samples on the company Web site (http://www.popstick.com/), but that's just the front end. On the back end, POPgrams have a campaign-tracking database. If a recipient views, responds, or forwards the invitation, marketing executives will know about it. “We provide real-time analytics that match with an interfacer,” says POPstick CEO Dan Kastner.
01-11-2005 04:23 AM
This guitar guy seems to be spaced out! 
His name is Danny.
Stepahanie or 
Kendra?
He was a convenient scapegoat as Carolyn stated. The failure was due to leadership. Todd didn't lead very well... 
