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I wonder If PG wrote deck/business plan when he pitched LPs for money.

by allenleee 5y ago

solarmist 5y ago
https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1492684063097778182?s=21 https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1492684063097778182?s=21
- gkop 5y ago
  The cognitive dissonance from pg and people in this thread bending over backwards to square his circle, is incredible.
  - deltree7 5y ago
    It's the opposite. Here's one of the tech influential thinkers literally opening his mind. But, no, we have to hate him and cancel him and pitchfork him.
    - CoffeeOnWrite 5y ago
      What I mean by cognitive dissonance is “I have never read a business plan”, followed by “I wrote something I called a business plan, but is it really a business plan? I don’t know what a business plan is”, to “what I meant by business plan is 20 pages of fluff”. The rhetoric is so incohesive that one could not possibly engage in constructive dialogue. We’re wasting our brain cells here. Words have meaning, and pg has done a poor job articulating himself in this instance, if his goal is to be understood. Since pg is a social media personality and his business ventures stand to benefit from his social media audience, reasonable people may speculate that his goal is NOT to be understood, but rather to drive engagement, and to that end he has been successful here. But it’s not actual thought leadership, it’s purely marketing. The hate/cancel/pitchfork sentiment expressed by some replies, could be seen then as an intended consequence of pg’s remarks - the outrage-driven engagement cycle is a well known dynamic in social media. And the defenders like you are the other side of the same coin. It’s amazing and somewhat sad, but not surprising, seeing smart people get worked up over this.
      - deltree7 5y ago
        words have meaning and it also has context. Every time PG tweets, he can't give the entire context for everyone's benefits. You either get PG, Naval, Sam Harris, Jordan Peterson, Tim Ferris, Musk, Bezos ... and understand where they are coming from and extract pearls of wisdom to enrich your life or you can bitch/whine/moan about semantics, sensitivity, political correctness. Oh and I absolutely don't think PG needs to manufacture outrage. He has been a first principle thinker since 1990s and that means he will say things that go against the cargo pants culture.

I wonder If PG wrote deck/business plan when he pitched LPs for money.

solarmist 5y ago

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1492684063097778182?s=21 https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1492684063097778182?s=21

gkop 5y ago
The cognitive dissonance from pg and people in this thread bending over backwards to square his circle, is incredible.
- deltree7 5y ago
  It's the opposite. Here's one of the tech influential thinkers literally opening his mind. But, no, we have to hate him and cancel him and pitchfork him.
  - CoffeeOnWrite 5y ago
    What I mean by cognitive dissonance is “I have never read a business plan”, followed by “I wrote something I called a business plan, but is it really a business plan? I don’t know what a business plan is”, to “what I meant by business plan is 20 pages of fluff”. The rhetoric is so incohesive that one could not possibly engage in constructive dialogue. We’re wasting our brain cells here. Words have meaning, and pg has done a poor job articulating himself in this instance, if his goal is to be understood. Since pg is a social media personality and his business ventures stand to benefit from his social media audience, reasonable people may speculate that his goal is NOT to be understood, but rather to drive engagement, and to that end he has been successful here. But it’s not actual thought leadership, it’s purely marketing. The hate/cancel/pitchfork sentiment expressed by some replies, could be seen then as an intended consequence of pg’s remarks - the outrage-driven engagement cycle is a well known dynamic in social media. And the defenders like you are the other side of the same coin. It’s amazing and somewhat sad, but not surprising, seeing smart people get worked up over this.
    - deltree7 5y ago
      words have meaning and it also has context. Every time PG tweets, he can't give the entire context for everyone's benefits. You either get PG, Naval, Sam Harris, Jordan Peterson, Tim Ferris, Musk, Bezos ... and understand where they are coming from and extract pearls of wisdom to enrich your life or you can bitch/whine/moan about semantics, sensitivity, political correctness. Oh and I absolutely don't think PG needs to manufacture outrage. He has been a first principle thinker since 1990s and that means he will say things that go against the cargo pants culture.