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> First, he clearly has too much skin in the game That sounds like an odd use of "skin in the game". "Skin in the game" would be if that thing failed and then
by elcapitan 5y ago
> First, he clearly has too much skin in the game
That sounds like an odd use of "skin in the game". "Skin in the game" would be if that thing failed and then he gets skinned, basically. Being invested in something with potentially lots of upside and worst case a bit of lost investment isn't like that.
- drcongo 5y agoNo, it literally means "being invested in something" regardless of the rest.
- elcapitan 5y agoNo it's not regardless of the rest. It implies actual risk. Some rich dude losing a dime is not skin in the game, unless the phrase is meant as completely meaningless masturbation. "Skin" implies an actual impact, otherwise it's just "in the game".
- uglygoblin 5y agoYou are making it all about money but things like reputation, legacy, and ego can easily be "skin in the game".
- elcapitan 5y agoLike .. what? Will people spit at him in the streets, if the company fails? Will they come with torches and pitchforks to his house and yell "it was a bad idea to run a browser in the cloud"?
- drcongo 5y agoIt's interesting that you need any of this spelling out, especially as you're so irate about a turn of phrase, but even the post you're replying to here is politely spelling it out for you. Reputation _is_ money when you're a VC. You appear to be arguing with yourself and making up things to be angry about.