Since no one outside Google knows what real work the white-collar staff at Google do, no one can prove him wrong. He may be quoting a disgruntled Google employe

Since no one outside Google knows what real work the white-collar staff at Google do, no one can prove him wrong. He may be quoting a disgruntled Google employee. He's using an appeal to authority argument - his own as one half of Andreessen-Horowitz. That's a neat trick.