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He said "it included just about every major angel investor in Silicon Valley" - which people can make easy assumptions about who it is.

guelo 16y ago
I'm guessing the top 10 super angels would include Marc Andreessen, Chris Dixon, Ron Conway and the PayPal guys Peter Thiel, Reid Hoffman, Max Levchin, Keith Rabois Who else?
- sachinag 16y ago
  Keith confirms he wasn't there: http://www.quora.com/Keith-Rabois-were-you-at-the-dinner-meeting-Michael-Arrington-blogged-about http://www.quora.com/Keith-Rabois-were-you-at-the-dinner-mee...
- guelo 16y ago
  This question at Quora http://www.quora.com/Who-are-the-Super-Angels-that-Michael-Arrington-is-talking-about-in-his-9-21-10-Techcrunch-post-So-a-Blogger-Walks-into-a-Bar http://www.quora.com/Who-are-the-Super-Angels-that-Michael-A...
- Eliezer 16y ago
  The Quora list is very different from yours. And I think we should all be really careful about guessing, considering how much damage you could do to someone's reputation by guessing wrongly. There's at least one person on your list above who I'd be surprised to see part of this. Vide the cognitive psychology experiments which show that once you mention a person's name, it gets connected in memory regardless of how doubtful the source ought to be, etcetera.
  - guelo 16y ago
    My list was complete guessing, just me thinking of famous angels. The Quora list seems to be based on more actual evidence. In any case, it was Arrington that fingered all these people when he called them the "10 or so highest profile angels" who do "nearly 100% of early stage startup deals in Silicon Valley". Though after seeing Quora's list I think Arrington mischaracterized the group.
  - khafra 16y ago
    Thiel seems like a clear thinker, but almost anybody can gradually drift in the wrong direction--especially if, as grellas says above, it probably wasn't quite illegal.
    - Eliezer 16y ago
      Well, he ain't on the Quora list and no one there has even suggested him yet, so let's all be a little careful with our public guessing, shall we?
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guelo 16y ago

I'm guessing the top 10 super angels would include Marc Andreessen, Chris Dixon, Ron Conway and the PayPal guys Peter Thiel, Reid Hoffman, Max Levchin, Keith Rabois Who else?

sachinag 16y ago
Keith confirms he wasn't there: http://www.quora.com/Keith-Rabois-were-you-at-the-dinner-meeting-Michael-Arrington-blogged-about http://www.quora.com/Keith-Rabois-were-you-at-the-dinner-mee...
guelo 16y ago
This question at Quora http://www.quora.com/Who-are-the-Super-Angels-that-Michael-Arrington-is-talking-about-in-his-9-21-10-Techcrunch-post-So-a-Blogger-Walks-into-a-Bar http://www.quora.com/Who-are-the-Super-Angels-that-Michael-A...
Eliezer 16y ago
The Quora list is very different from yours. And I think we should all be really careful about guessing, considering how much damage you could do to someone's reputation by guessing wrongly. There's at least one person on your list above who I'd be surprised to see part of this. Vide the cognitive psychology experiments which show that once you mention a person's name, it gets connected in memory regardless of how doubtful the source ought to be, etcetera.
- guelo 16y ago
  My list was complete guessing, just me thinking of famous angels. The Quora list seems to be based on more actual evidence. In any case, it was Arrington that fingered all these people when he called them the "10 or so highest profile angels" who do "nearly 100% of early stage startup deals in Silicon Valley". Though after seeing Quora's list I think Arrington mischaracterized the group.
- khafra 16y ago
  Thiel seems like a clear thinker, but almost anybody can gradually drift in the wrong direction--especially if, as grellas says above, it probably wasn't quite illegal.
  - Eliezer 16y ago
    Well, he ain't on the Quora list and no one there has even suggested him yet, so let's all be a little careful with our public guessing, shall we?
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