Post ATY6YYeAwIi39XwFKC by hydrocabron@mastodon.social
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(DIR) Post #ATXzRvuZLSLpbGV5Y8 by tante@tldr.nettime.org
2023-03-12T18:07:36Z
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People such as Jason Calacanis and Peter Sacks have been known to be not the smart and tech-savvy people they loved to play. The last months and especially the last days have been great at illustrating what a weird, incompetent bunch VCs often are.If the plan was to show everyone that the US and especially tech are not about merit but structures keeping mediocre men in power they were massively successful.
(DIR) Post #ATY0z52gW8vRQgfMga by mcole@hachyderm.io
2023-03-12T18:24:46Z
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@tante they bet the house and lost that the life of the gambler
(DIR) Post #ATY1PI9cOH1BclPLbE by Spicewalla@mastodon.social
2023-03-12T18:29:28Z
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@tante If I had to pick the one aphorism that most changed my understanding of life it would be, "The world is run by C-students."
(DIR) Post #ATY2GCjVHEdq9tQJua by prehnra@mastodon.social
2023-03-12T18:39:05Z
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@tante Yeah, it's the gap between their actual incompetence and their undeserved sense of universal competence that is so disastrous.
(DIR) Post #ATY2URFE7U5PDh36oK by jeber@mastodon.social
2023-03-12T18:41:39Z
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@tante I remember when people like Jason, Kevin Rose, and Scoble were the big names on the Internet.
(DIR) Post #ATY2oxT21gvewrI5vU by mkarliner@mastodon.modern-industry.com
2023-03-12T18:45:17Z
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@tante I've been working in start ups since the early 1980's, God help me, and the thing I've learned about VC's how very rarely they are actually driven by making money. In my experience the motivating factors for VC's include:- The sadism of watching other people sweat their guts out for a non-existent reward.- Being able to lecture more talented people about how to run their businesses, despite their manifest inability to do it themselves.#svb #startups #vc ---more---
(DIR) Post #ATY6YYeAwIi39XwFKC by hydrocabron@mastodon.social
2023-03-12T19:27:15Z
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@tante @DataDrivenMD The collapse of Theranos for did a similar service: So many respected men from think tanks and high-powered law firms - the most Stanford and Harvard among us, really - completely bought in.Hoping the bankruptcy of Twitter and Tesla drives a stake through the myth of the wizard polymath savior.But will the media learn from any of this?
(DIR) Post #ATY8y4pibo0y7mdMJc by martin@mastodon.design
2023-03-12T19:54:14Z
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@tante what is this in response to, did I miss a statement by them? Or just sharing your thoughts.
(DIR) Post #ATYAf0vL7SGKPFIiKu by GeorgeCarlinWasRight@sfba.social
2023-03-12T20:13:13Z
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@tante BINGO!!!
(DIR) Post #ATYFoPmAaYWVrQJVtA by MrShoggoth@toot.community
2023-03-12T21:10:55Z
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@tante - Competence is for the weak.
(DIR) Post #ATYluxmiFrOfbjjZtQ by atomicpoet@mastodon.social
2023-03-13T03:10:43Z
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@tante Sorry, I’m out of the loop. What’s going on with Jason Calacanis?