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> PG sure has been on a kick about how brilliant of an independent thinker he is in a sea of conformity. The feeling I get essay after essay is that he's strug

• alisonkisk 6y ago
  The same old stuff just plays differently now that he's semi retired and not building his VC brand by recruiting nerds to sell him stakes in their companies.
• fractionalhare 6y ago
  I disagree, I don't think PG has to struggle to stay relevant. He remains a towering figure in venture capital across the country, and in essentially all of private equity on the West coast in particular.
  • tchaffee 6y ago
    Yeah, you're right he is still relevant to that specific but small crowd. A crowd that might be described as having similar flaws to PG. Maybe it would have been more accurate for me to say "culturally relevant". He is increasingly seen by younger people, even engineering types, as out of touch and tone deaf. And too many of his recent essays feel like they are a reaction to that. So much patting himself on the back about how the crowds are wrong and he as such an independent thinker has got it right - and so little vulnerability. My gut tells me that he is trying a little too hard to convince himself and others. He'd be a far better essayist if he were more like Johnny Cash at the end of his life and less like Liam Gallagher.
    • whimsicalism 6y ago
      > much patting himself on the back about how the crowds are wrong and he as such an independent thinker has got it right - and so little vulnerability I think that "great man" theories of success are sort of dying out among newer generations. Perhaps I've met enough "great men" to realize how large of a factor luck is after a certain threshold point.