# @jared-kleinstein on LinkedIn

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- **Original URL:** https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jared-kleinstein_i-spend-22yr-to-keep-a-site-alive-that-activity-7518742459548413954-nFkr
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/75960759-injared-kleinstein-linkedin
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- **Posted:** 2026-10-21T18:38:13.835+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Jared Kleinstein (@jarzod) — https://gondola.cc/jarzod

## Caption

I spend $22/yr to keep a site alive that I haven't checked in a long time...but it changed the course of my life. 

October 23rd, 2011. Denver Broncos Football Club win in an overtime thriller over the Miami Dolphins and Hard Rock Stadium. The hero is Tim Tebow (or Matt Prater, depending how you look at it).

We leave the bar in New York and take the OG "Tebowing" picture. It gets 9 likes (since has received two more!!). I decide, in a fit of entrepreneurial inspiration and inebriation, that "this is viral". I start a tumblr blog. I send an email to 7 friends. I buy Tebowing.com for $9.99. The rest is history. 

It was the funniest few months of my life. I didn't sleep. I sat with Barry Dan, Robert Bernton, Andrew Edelson, and Aaron Sidorov scheming t-shirt designs and selling ads all day and night. I somehow didn't get fired from my job at StreetEasy. 

Did it REALLY help my resume long term? Not really. It's a fun "two truths and a lie" story now. And I remember when Lewis Wiltshire told me on my first day at Twitter that it in some way validated that I knew enough about sports to have the role I did at Vine. 

The lesson learned (if that's what we do here on Linkedin) is that a great idea could be a perfectly timed stupid one. And if you don't try new things/put your ideas out into the world, you'll never know if they could've resonated. 

Can't wait for my next big viral moment (I promise, LIV doesn't count). Also, go Broncos. | 13 comments on LinkedIn

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## Credits

| Name | Username | Profile | Role |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Jared Kleinstein | @jarzod | https://gondola.cc/jarzod | Social Media Manager |

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