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It's not cool when someone gets preached like a prophet. VC stuff, OK, but kids? Come on.

• nogabebop23 6y ago
  This is pretty stupid. The cross-over between VC and parenting is ... non-existent. Maybe PG is a great person and parent, but I don't know him. VC playbook: build a portfolio of rapid growth companies, spread a bunch of cash around; expect most to fail but one or a few are huge successes in a short time frame; repeat. Parent playbook: no real repeatable systems, slow organic growth, everyone succeeds, likely no unicorns, one-and-done. You cannot engineer and scale parenting.
  • kick 6y ago
    pg was famous for his essays before he was famous for being a venture capitalist. I disagree with many of his late-stage essays, but his reflections on parenting aren't the worst.
• rexreed 6y ago
  Agreed. I don't get the adulation here. A lot of this "advice" is honestly pretty weird and not helpful. Here's a guy who thinks of his kids as products. And things he does and they do as features.
  • astura 6y ago
    >A lot of this "advice" is honestly pretty weird and not helpful. This pretty much applies to most advice doled out by the super rich for consumption by the to the general public.