D: All Things Digital Conferences
People like the puppet more than you because he is more real than you are. More honest than you are, smarter than you are. More human than you are. People want the Shel puppet to win. The same can’t be said for you my friend.
— Open letter to Shel Israel from Loren Feldman, creator of the Shel Israel Puppet Show. Feldman (and his puppet) ruthlessly poked fun at his Silicon Valley luminaries he interviewed and anyone else in his path–but mostly at Shel Israel himself.