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Success doesn't just magically cross all elements of human life! The most visible SV VCs don't do themselves any favors. Granting the "I can built a successful
by rtpg 4y ago
Success doesn't just magically cross all elements of human life!
The most visible SV VCs don't do themselves any favors. Granting the "I can built a successful company" component, there are many who then claim to understand society, politics, philosophy, and everything in between. Then they loudly talk about their opinions. And then people see it, and think "wow, not super smart huh".
The cherry on the cake is how many of these VC people get mad about cancel culture, cuz it turns out that social media means they have way more people calling them stupid to their face (an experience they likely don't have in their day to day life, as the person with the money/firing capabilities). (To be fair I also don't have people calling me stupid to my face and it sounds unpleasant)
Of course there are many VCs who don't play this game, don't pretend to have seen behind the curtain of the universe, and people don't make fun of them on Twitter. And many of those people are plenty successful and fine.
But there are a couple who become the butt of jokes because they like saying the name Socrates
- rchaud 4y ago> Of course there are many VCs who don't play this game, don't pretend to have seen behind the curtain of the universe, and people don't make fun of them on Twitter. And many of those people are plenty successful and fine. That might be Ben Horowitz, the titular partner at A16Z. His Twitter is relatively quiet, mostly just retweeting other A16Z people's tweets. In his book "The Hard Thing About Hard Things", every chapter begins with a rap lyric from golden-age era hiphop (80s, 90s). It's quite ridiculous contrasting lyrics about street life and hustling to Horowitz's tales of trying to build enterprise unicorns. But in book format, it comes off as well-meaning tribute from a fan and not a cynical way of conflating the struggles of the American poor with say Loudcloud going through a down round. But on Twitter, which is combative to begin with, him quoting Nas or Jay-Z while bloviating about Web3 would invite derision right away.