“let me know how I can be helpful” This take on VC history is incredibly specious and reads like a bunch of country club boys taking advantage of the CH writer

“let me know how I can be helpful” This take on VC history is incredibly specious and reads like a bunch of country club boys taking advantage of the CH writer’s “unbiased” tone because they couldn’t get their edits approved in Wikipedia. Missing from the story: * Radar and stealth development and US Gov investment in Stanford, MIT, etc, that predates much of the VC comments in this article. US Taxpayers made a huge investment in SV. * It touches on Apple but totally ignores Steve Jobs relationship with the Apple Board * Modern textbook examples of VC Boardroom greed e.g. Pets.com, Broadcast.com, Paypal, Uber, Wework, etc etc SPACS especially * The move to megacap Founder-owned companies E.g. Facebook, Airbnb, Snap, Google. Historically these examples cement the relative uselessness of VCs in internet endeavors that are much less capital-intensive vs hardware. It’s a decent article on how VCs see themselves as being helpful but an unabashed sign that the biases of the Computer History Museum.