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I'm not sure if you're expecting a congratulatory note or not. I'm sure Steve Blank knew that people could find the identity if they really wanted to, and yet h
by sgrove 16y ago
I'm not sure if you're expecting a congratulatory note or not. I'm sure Steve Blank knew that people could find the identity if they really wanted to, and yet he chose not to share it. Having even a small hurdle to overcome means that the vast majority of people (most of whom don't need to know) would never really find out the identity of the bad VC.
Thus he can tell his story, and retain some civility...until someone comes along and is a bit too eager to show off his google-fu.
- kragen 16y agoYou know, almost everybody who reads Hacker News would benefit from knowing how Kleiner treats founders. This very much meshes with my experience with them at KnowNow, where I wasn't a founder but was a pre-funding employee. Ben's de-anonymization of Steve's story is a public service.
- sgrove 16y agoPerhaps, but I think a slight disservice to Blank. I understand the argument and see its merit, but I also think that anyone who would be involved with them could just as easily have done it themselves.
- btilly 16y agoCould, yes. But would they? People get busy. If someone reading this starts looking at VC in a month, will they find this story again? If they do will they have time to go back and search for it? I'm betting not. And so they won't draw the connection. Their odds of drawing the connection in a month are much, much better if they've seen the name instead.