"Hammerbacher looked around Silicon Valley at companies like his own, Google (GOOG), and Twitter, and saw his peers wasting their talents. "The best minds of my

"Hammerbacher looked around Silicon Valley at companies like his own, Google (GOOG), and Twitter, and saw his peers wasting their talents. "The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads," he says. 'That sucks.'" Man, I love that quote. Advertising is a pestilence. The real problem with ads is that they invariably take the form of insincere communication. As such, they are fundamentally at odds with the open and thoughtful (on a good day) nature of the Internet.