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I think he is hired for his contacts. Not for his skills.
by xmeadow 5y ago
I think he is hired for his contacts. Not for his skills.
- VHRanger 5y agoThiel doesnt strike me as someone for whom corruption is a big concern
- dragonwriter 5y agoThiel doesn't strike me as someone for whom it is a negative concern, at least.
- rTX5CMRXIfFG 5y agoI don’t think the person you’re replying to meant to use “concern” in a positive sense. Does anybody else?
- asdfasgasdgasdg 5y agoDragon writer is implying that Theil would actively prefer someone who is corrupt.
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- rTX5CMRXIfFG 5y agoOh, language. I keep forgetting that either one is a sophist or they mean exactly what they say.
- asdfasgasdgasdg 5y agoI don't really get it but I was just trying to be helpful and clarify. :) Sorry if I failed.
- daniel-cussen 5y agoI, Daniel Cussen, and let me say I'm going to get this Hacker News account notarized so you'll know I'm a real guy, actually worked for a company he was financing and it was a great job. The money from earning a high starting salary allowed me to work my hardest, which felt amazing, and do my best work. That money came from him, not from the founders. He cut the checks and decided conditions. He didn't have to pay those wages, and he got his money's worth, but that doesn't change that he still did just that, which is completely against the MBA playbook. That, to me, is a contrarian.
- smt88 5y agoWhat does any of that have to do with anything? Lots of history's monsters were very kind to individual people, especially useful ones. One of my relatives was the ambassador to Germany before WWII started (from an economically important, non-White country) and loved to tell everyone how Hitler was incredibly nice to him and his wife.
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- daniel-cussen 5y agoSo basically what you're saying is put the equivalent of the History Channel, meaning random web pages with good domain names, above the words of the people I met personally, his own words in The Diversity Myth and Zero to One, and as the final documents, the checks I cashed?
- heyoni 5y ago
- daniel-cussen 5y ago
- smt88 5y ago
- legerdemain 5y ago"There's a point where no corruption can be a bad thing. It can mean that things are too boring." — Peter Thiel
- ErikVandeWater 5y agoI think he is concerned with corruption on the grander scale. But he knows the rules of the game and he's going to play optimally at his level.
- vanusa 5y agoActually, it was probably his skills at graft that sold Thiel on hiring him.