Depends what your focus is. If your focus is playing the stock market or IPO game, it doesn't really matter what industry you're in. You're merely an investor.

Depends what your focus is. If your focus is playing the stock market or IPO game, it doesn't really matter what industry you're in. You're merely an investor. Yes, I think this anti-engineer culture at work at HN is ridiculous. Its the people building the future and having a vision for it who matter. Not the bankers who write the loans/buy stock/buy equity. That what Thiel's role is, pretty much just what banks used to do for businesses, except the SV way is no collateral just equity. I think we greatly overplay the importance of the money men and let them steal credit from the engineers and founders. > "the weirdos" and people like Thiel. He stopped being one of the weirdos a long time ago. He's the establishment the weirdos now have to fight against.