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Because it's not about making an impact, it's performance art meant to accumulate investment money.
by micromacrofoot 5y ago
Because it's not about making an impact, it's performance art meant to accumulate investment money.
- nopenopenopeno 5y ago“Performance art” is exactly right. Likewise, it’s not a coincidence that the actual field of contemporary performance art is increasingly resembling the entrepreneurship/startup industry.
- micromacrofoot 5y agoIt's funny, because people tend to think performance artists are the ones full of shit... I suppose life really does imitate art.
- bmitc 5y agoYou are right, but I think it's performance art plus narcissism and greed.
- munificent 5y agoAkin to "security theatre", this is "tech startup theatre".
- Melting_Harps 5y agoStop trying to whitewash this, this is a scam, just because he was the former Kingmaker of the SV startup scene doesn't mean he isn't a scammer and this isn't a scam.
- munificent 5y agoReferring to the company as analogous to security theatre is not a compliment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_theater https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_theater
- micromacrofoot 5y agoit is a little “word softening” though, we might be better off calling a fig a fig
- munificent 5y agoIt's literally not, though. The whole point of "theatre" is to emphasize that it's not real. If you call something "counterfeit currency", the word "counterfeit" isn't "softening", it's negating.
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