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I agree. I feel a bit uncomfortable with the premise of this article. It's quasi deifying the tech execs. "CEO Evan Spiegel grew up without TV, and credits t

by pcurve 4y ago

I agree. I feel a bit uncomfortable with the premise of this article. It's quasi deifying the tech execs. "CEO Evan Spiegel grew up without TV, and credits the technology restriction to his success". Sigh. Only if things were that simple. I'm sure it was one of hundreds of factors that worked in his favors.

spacemadness 4y ago
It’s basically a financial tabloid. They all do this—pump out worship of the rich and successful that gets eaten up by the masses of temporarily embarrassed millionaires that read it and try to emulate what they do.
- dsfyu404ed 4y ago
  > masses of temporarily embarrassed millionaires The "managerial class" people who actually read this stuff are often literally millionaires if you count their inflated home values and retirement funds. This is a magazine to be read by doctors, lawyer, investment bankers and techies, not people who work outdoors. The sliced of the economic ladder who are often derided by people slightly up the ladder as "temporarily embarrassed millionaires" for not sharing the same views mostly don't care what the billionaires are up to unless one of them tries to buy an election presides over some technological breakthrough or some other highly newsworthy event.
kqr 4y ago
Or he was successful despite the restriction! There's really no way to know just from one sample.
- memonkey 4y ago
  Pretty sure a lot of it has to do with this: > Spiegel was born in Los Angeles, California, to lawyers John W. Spiegel and Melissa Ann Thomas. He grew up in Pacific Palisades, California, where he was raised Episcopalian. He was educated at the Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences in Santa Monica, and attended Stanford University.[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Spiegel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Spiegel

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I agree. I feel a bit uncomfortable with the premise of this article. It's quasi deifying the tech execs. "CEO Evan Spiegel grew up without TV, and credits t

by pcurve 4y ago

spacemadness 4y ago
It’s basically a financial tabloid. They all do this—pump out worship of the rich and successful that gets eaten up by the masses of temporarily embarrassed millionaires that read it and try to emulate what they do.
- dsfyu404ed 4y ago
  > masses of temporarily embarrassed millionaires The "managerial class" people who actually read this stuff are often literally millionaires if you count their inflated home values and retirement funds. This is a magazine to be read by doctors, lawyer, investment bankers and techies, not people who work outdoors. The sliced of the economic ladder who are often derided by people slightly up the ladder as "temporarily embarrassed millionaires" for not sharing the same views mostly don't care what the billionaires are up to unless one of them tries to buy an election presides over some technological breakthrough or some other highly newsworthy event.
kqr 4y ago
Or he was successful despite the restriction! There's really no way to know just from one sample.
- memonkey 4y ago
  Pretty sure a lot of it has to do with this: > Spiegel was born in Los Angeles, California, to lawyers John W. Spiegel and Melissa Ann Thomas. He grew up in Pacific Palisades, California, where he was raised Episcopalian. He was educated at the Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences in Santa Monica, and attended Stanford University.[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Spiegel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Spiegel