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Do you think it's wrong?

• pesenti 10y ago
  To call people monkeys because they didn't accomplish as much as Mark Zuckerberg? Yes it's very wrong! And ironic given that MySpace had a much better exit and impact than FriendFeed (the company created by the partner quoted)
  • uola 10y ago
    It's particularly unfitting when you're asking people to run startups with an uncertain future. It might boost moral in the short run, but doing so on other peoples expense always comes back to haunt you. To quote the article: > Graham wrote an essay, “Mean People Fail,” in which [...] he declared that “being mean makes you stupid” and discourages good people from working for you.
• mruniverse 10y ago
  Doesn't seem true. Sounds like nerdy trash talk.
• bbctol 10y ago
  Yeah. It's a post hoc explanation of something better explained by luck. Tom Anderson of Myspace really is a spooky-smart hacker with great intuition, and no one was calling Zuckerberg a visionary until truly recently.
• sidlls 10y ago
  Yes. It's the hacker/CS version of clique-based exclusionist and bullying.