Not sure if people are feeling it is somehow unkind to speak about the facts here but for those who wish to know they have been reported by local news in Las Vegas.
All I can say is that Jody was a great guy. My cofounder and I hung out with him one night about a year ago when he was in San Francisco, and he was one of the nicest and most genuine people I've ever met. Almost sold us on moving our startup to LA (he was living there at the time).
A woman I knew just drowned herself
The well was deep and muddy
She was just shaking off futility
Or punishing somebody
My friends were calling up all day yesterday
All emotions and abstractions
It seems we all live so close to that line
And so far from satisfaction
Jody was one of my advisors. I was just exchanging emails with him last week and he was consoling me about our startup struggles. Having trouble making sense of this.
Granted his wife was distraught when she wrote that, but semantically speaking if you get hit by a bus you don't know what you won't be able to say goodbye.
It sounds like it was either a terminal illness of some sort or his own decision, but frankly the cause is irrelevant. I never heard of him until today but it sounds like he was a good man and it's a shame for his family, friends and the community.
(No, I have no idea what happened. Jody and I lost touch after V.C.)