Lending Club Webby Speech: Can't Say Anything! Quiet Period.

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Lending Club Webby: Can’t Say Anything! Quiet Period

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Congratulations to Lending Club for winning a Webby Award. Other recipients included David Byrne, will.i.am of the Blackeyed Peas, Stephen Colbert, Lorne Michaels, Michel Gondry, and Tim and Eric. Many, many other organizations won awards including the Peace Corps which won a Webby award for a government website.

Lending Cub gave a tongue-in-cheek acceptance speech for their 2008 Webby award, but it seems to have been the only words available to a company under the a SEC imposed quiet period. That is the speech was completely silent:

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“Can’t Say Anything! Quiet Period”

Photo credit: Webby Awards

It may have been silent, but the length was spot on for the Webby awards according to tradition. Five words is the limit. As the NYT reported in 2005:

One of the more charming idiosyncrasies of the Webby Awards, the annual awards for achievement in Web creation, requires that recipients use five words, and five words only, to make their acceptance speeches.

A short video about the Webby Awards which does not include Lending Club since finance is not as cool as bunny rabbit animation or McCain Girl:

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