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> You're the CEO of Y Combinator. When you tell a New York Times reporter that Donald Trump is "the Silicon Valley President", > What the hell is the matter wi

> You're the CEO of Y Combinator. When you tell a New York Times reporter that Donald Trump is "the Silicon Valley President", > What the hell is the matter with you? You're completely overreacting to this and misrepresenting Sam's quote, which is this: "Trump is the Silicon Valley candidate in every way except that the ideology is flipped," "He’s an outsider. He took on a system he thought was broken and then disregarded the rules, he got to know his users well and tested his product early and iterated rapidly. That’s the start-up playbook. That’s exactly what we tell our start-ups to do" This seems like a pretty accurate assessment of events to me.

philwelch 10y ago
I think it was the very recognition of this pattern that led so many in Silicon Valley to fear Trump during 2016 far more than the conventional wisdom allowed. The Clinton campaign, piggybacking as it did off of Obama's campaigns, was a textbook example of the innovator's dilemma.
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ksk 10y ago
>This seems like a pretty accurate assessment of events to me. So where exactly does pandering to racists, fear mongering against the "other", and demonizing the powerless, feature in the SV analogy? Is that "disregarding the rules"? Rules meaning, being civil, ethical and sane. I suppose under a certain Machiavellian light, slavery could also be considered as "disregarding the rules". Maybe SV should start adopting political tactics too. Robocalls that ask you how you would feel if you knew that Google employees were "perhaps" looking at your teenage daughters pictures. Demonize php developers while lying to win32 developers about bringing their jobs back, etc.. :)
- davidw 10y ago
  Not to mention he doesn't really know WTF his product is, or outright lied about it ("our health care thing will cover everyone" to paraphrase). Silicon Valley has a lot of really competent people.

philwelch 10y ago

I think it was the very recognition of this pattern that led so many in Silicon Valley to fear Trump during 2016 far more than the conventional wisdom allowed. The Clinton campaign, piggybacking as it did off of Obama's campaigns, was a textbook example of the innovator's dilemma.

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ksk 10y ago

>This seems like a pretty accurate assessment of events to me. So where exactly does pandering to racists, fear mongering against the "other", and demonizing the powerless, feature in the SV analogy? Is that "disregarding the rules"? Rules meaning, being civil, ethical and sane. I suppose under a certain Machiavellian light, slavery could also be considered as "disregarding the rules". Maybe SV should start adopting political tactics too. Robocalls that ask you how you would feel if you knew that Google employees were "perhaps" looking at your teenage daughters pictures. Demonize php developers while lying to win32 developers about bringing their jobs back, etc.. :)

davidw 10y ago
Not to mention he doesn't really know WTF his product is, or outright lied about it ("our health care thing will cover everyone" to paraphrase). Silicon Valley has a lot of really competent people.