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Unfortunately for everyone, it seems like his personality is toxic to others and himself. If you read some of the articles about him, he "regrets buying the pro

by fiter 8y ago

Unfortunately for everyone, it seems like his personality is toxic to others and himself. If you read some of the articles about him, he "regrets buying the property" and to me seems pretty conflicted about the whole ordeal. He even "support[s] the Coastal Act"! Can anyone give a reason for why he claims $30 million for the easement (6 acres, privacy)? I've heard he paid something less than $35 million for the whole property (94 acres). Articles say that the village is part of what he purchased; clearly all those beach homes are worth more than $5 million. [0] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/30/technology/vinod-khosla-beach.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/30/technology/vinod-khosla-b... [1] https://medium.com/@vkhosla/martins-beach-a-matter-of-principle-property-rights-b32f4de1c97 https://medium.com/@vkhosla/martins-beach-a-matter-of-princi...

siruncledrew 8y ago
What's a pity is that people this wealthy never reveal their true personalities and can pay for praise while deflecting shame. Khosla can pay for a PR campaign to say a bunch of nice things about him and how wonderful of a person he actually is while simultaneously having an army of his lawyers go fight his petty battles because how dare a bunch of 'low-income commoners' tell him what he can't do. Just because he owns a VC firm doesn't mean he isn't a douchebag in real life.
- sverige 8y ago
  > Just because he owns a VC firm doesn't mean he isn't a douchebag in real life. In fact, that may be a key indicator that he might be a douchebag. Though to me the more likely indicator is his involvement with real estate, which has been a pretty consistent tell in my experience.
  - ganoushoreilly 8y ago
    To be fair a lot of people invest in real estate, including those with modest income. I wouldn't be surprised to find that a larger percentage of people with defined wealth have some sort of Property or holdings.
- fiter 8y ago
  Do you have reason to believe the second article wasn't written by him? It doesn't seem like it was written by a professional writer to me. Neither of those articles cast him in a particularly good light, but I cited them because I think it goes to show that he's suffering from his own decisions which he could free himself from by compromising, but his uncompromising trait is getting in the way. In other words, I think this would be a very complicated PR play for pretty poor PR.

by fiter 8y ago

siruncledrew 8y ago

What's a pity is that people this wealthy never reveal their true personalities and can pay for praise while deflecting shame. Khosla can pay for a PR campaign to say a bunch of nice things about him and how wonderful of a person he actually is while simultaneously having an army of his lawyers go fight his petty battles because how dare a bunch of 'low-income commoners' tell him what he can't do. Just because he owns a VC firm doesn't mean he isn't a douchebag in real life.

sverige 8y ago
> Just because he owns a VC firm doesn't mean he isn't a douchebag in real life. In fact, that may be a key indicator that he might be a douchebag. Though to me the more likely indicator is his involvement with real estate, which has been a pretty consistent tell in my experience.
- ganoushoreilly 8y ago
  To be fair a lot of people invest in real estate, including those with modest income. I wouldn't be surprised to find that a larger percentage of people with defined wealth have some sort of Property or holdings.
fiter 8y ago
Do you have reason to believe the second article wasn't written by him? It doesn't seem like it was written by a professional writer to me. Neither of those articles cast him in a particularly good light, but I cited them because I think it goes to show that he's suffering from his own decisions which he could free himself from by compromising, but his uncompromising trait is getting in the way. In other words, I think this would be a very complicated PR play for pretty poor PR.