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Any statement from the YC partnership?

by StayTrue 3y ago

sgt 3y ago
Garry Tan needs to go. This is not CEO behavior.
- danans 3y ago
  > This is not CEO behavior Prescriptively, you are right, but descriptively, for a particular subset of Silicon Valley CEOs, it seems pretty on-character.
  - replwoacause 3y ago
    Which is one reason why so many people hate SV. This kind of behavior is just terrible. How do we have so many manbabies getting in charge of things?
    - Gibbon1 3y ago
      30 years ago a guy that worked as an international translator said to me, if people only knew how their political and business leaders act when they don't think anyone important is watching. They are all terrible people. Another friend deals with the Hollywood and Television elites; most of them are human trash. They can act nice when it suits them. And they'll happily be ruthless, vindictive and petty otherwise. The nice thing now is ordinary people to get to see this.
      - danans 3y ago
        > How do we have so many manbabies getting in charge of things? > 30 years ago a guy that worked as an international translator said to me, if people only knew how their political and business leaders act when they don't think anyone important is watching. > The nice thing now is ordinary people to get to see this. Ordinary people like you and me are inherently no more virtuous and have said things that we would be ashamed of if seen publicly. The difference is that we, unlike the Tans and Musks of the world, don't have a reality-distortion-field of wealth - and even worse: adulation - that makes us feel we can express our worst and ugliest impulses. Our mistake is in raising business leaders to demigod status in the first place. We shouldn't then be surprised when that goes to their heads.
        Gibbon1 3y ago
        I keep coming back to something Judge Posner got completely wrong. He thinks wealth people don't commit crimes because they value their reputation. Middle class don't because they value their money. And poor don't because they don't want to go to jail. Which is backwards. Poor people's reputation is the most valuable thing they have.

Any statement from the YC partnership?

sgt 3y ago

Garry Tan needs to go. This is not CEO behavior.

danans 3y ago
> This is not CEO behavior Prescriptively, you are right, but descriptively, for a particular subset of Silicon Valley CEOs, it seems pretty on-character.
- replwoacause 3y ago
  Which is one reason why so many people hate SV. This kind of behavior is just terrible. How do we have so many manbabies getting in charge of things?
  - Gibbon1 3y ago
    30 years ago a guy that worked as an international translator said to me, if people only knew how their political and business leaders act when they don't think anyone important is watching. They are all terrible people. Another friend deals with the Hollywood and Television elites; most of them are human trash. They can act nice when it suits them. And they'll happily be ruthless, vindictive and petty otherwise. The nice thing now is ordinary people to get to see this.
    - danans 3y ago
      > How do we have so many manbabies getting in charge of things? > 30 years ago a guy that worked as an international translator said to me, if people only knew how their political and business leaders act when they don't think anyone important is watching. > The nice thing now is ordinary people to get to see this. Ordinary people like you and me are inherently no more virtuous and have said things that we would be ashamed of if seen publicly. The difference is that we, unlike the Tans and Musks of the world, don't have a reality-distortion-field of wealth - and even worse: adulation - that makes us feel we can express our worst and ugliest impulses. Our mistake is in raising business leaders to demigod status in the first place. We shouldn't then be surprised when that goes to their heads.
      - Gibbon1 3y ago
        I keep coming back to something Judge Posner got completely wrong. He thinks wealth people don't commit crimes because they value their reputation. Middle class don't because they value their money. And poor don't because they don't want to go to jail. Which is backwards. Poor people's reputation is the most valuable thing they have.