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PG - "The Papa Bear" - on BusinessWeek's list of most influential people on the web
- qhoxie 18y agoCongratulations PG. This is a well-deserved honor.
- mattmaroon 18y agoPapa Bear?
- alaskamiller 18y agoYou're a Berenstain cub
- qhoxie 18y agoI think that seems fitting. Personable, nurturing, etc.
- mattmaroon 18y agoBears are godless killing machines.
- samson 18y agohmm..well in any case PG should perhaps avoid taking nature walks in this guys forest. "Vanjoki, who hunts bear in his spare time" http://images.businessweek.com/ss/08/09/0929_most_influential/23.htm http://images.businessweek.com/ss/08/09/0929_most_influentia...
- martythemaniak 18y agoIts a reference to the Colbert Report. Colbert calls Bill O'Reilly "Papa Bear".
- aston 18y agoPapa 'bert.
- SwellJoe 18y agoAll the other nicknames we use to refer to pg aren't fit for a family publication.
- ivankirigin 18y agohttp://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=papa+bear http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=papa+bear
- helveticaman 18y ago"Used in reference to somebody of great authority or of a greater social rank than you."
- ivankirigin 18y ago"A big ass pimp."
- fallentimes 18y agoI like this picture better :) http://danhau.posterous.com/our-fearless-investor-paul-gra http://danhau.posterous.com/our-fearless-investor-paul-gra
- helveticaman 18y agoNote to fellow HN readers: while this is a good post, the article is NOT WORTH READING. Just note that PG appears on Businessweek and move on. Do not read his profile or that of other people unless you want your brain to hurt.
- palish 18y agoI wasn't going to read it, but now I can't resist.
- dbrush 18y agoWhy is it important to you that others don't read it?
- helveticaman 18y agoI can't back this up, but I'm doing this out of good will. I want to spare other HN readers. At the end of the day, the bottom line is: Because it sucks. From the OP: "Since Mark Zuckerberg co-founded Facebook in his dorm room at Harvard University, the social networking giant has been dominated by a freewheeling culture of young, mostly male computer engineers. That all changed in April when the company hired former Google executive Sandberg to become Facebook's chief operating officer. Sandberg, 38, was brought in to provide some adult supervision and help Silicon Valley's hottest startup to grow up—and make oodles of money." Not cool, BusinessWeek. I hope you get a[nother] hundred hours of downtime for dissing hackers like this. I hope you try turnaround after turnaround as new market entrants eat your lunch.
- davi 18y agoI always have a strange reaction when someone tells me to do something I'm already doing, or have already done.
- mtw 18y agoi can't believe they put Facebook's COO in the list instead of Mark Zuckerberg
- subbu 18y agoNo list there. Here it is: 1. Steve Ballmer -- microsoft.com 2. Mitchell Baker -- mozilla.org 3. Jeff Bezos -- amazon.com 4. Sergey Brin, Larry Page, and Eric Schmidt -- google.com 5. Jeff Clavier -- softtechvc.com 6. Paul Graham -- ycombinator.com 7. Arianna Huffington -- huffingtonpost.com 8. Joi Ito -- joi.ito.com 9. Steve Jobs -- apple.com 10. Jonathan Kaplan -- theflip.com 11. Loic Le Meur -- Leweb3.com, seesmic.com 12. Jack Ma -- alibaba.com 13. Matt Mullenweg -- Wordpress.org 14. Rupert Murdoch -- myspace.com 15. Craig Newmark -- craigslist.com 16. Gabe Rivera -- techmeme.com 17. Kevin Rose -- digg.com 18. Sheryl Sandberg -- facebook.com 19. Jon Stewart -- thedailyshow.com 20. Peter Thiel -- clariumcapital.com, thefoundersfund.com 21. Maria Thomas -- etsy.com 22. Anssi Vanjoki -- nokia.com 23. Jimmy Wales -- wikia-inc.com 24. Evan Williams -- twitter.com 25. Jerry Yang -- yahoo.com
- listic 18y agoOMG, Sergey Brin counts for only 1/3 a man for BusinessWeek!
- andr 18y agoNow that he got a Businessweek plug, it looks like all of PG's efforts with YCombinator have finally paid off ;)
- callmeed 18y agoThe only thing I learned from this article is that the tech/web scene needs some good headshot/editorial photographers.