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Andreessen Horowitz Defends Hiring of Daniel Penny to Its Investors
- mikeyouse 2y agoI miss the days when everyone wasn't trying to be edgy. It's just so exhausting.
- tipiirai 2y agoWhat do you mean? I don’t know the backstory here. And the article is paywalled
- wslh 2y agohttps://archive.is/aXptw https://archive.is/aXptw
- BugsJustFindMe 2y agoWhat are you calling edgy here? The author? The topic? The VC firm? The HN submitter? NYT readers? What you've done here is called "vaguebooking", defined as the act of posting intentionally unclear messages on social media to get attention or sympathy. It's...very edgy, and indeed exhausting.
- mikeyouse 2y agoClearly the VC firm who hired and then issued a press release about hiring the utterly unqualified Penny to their "American Dynamism" team.
- BugsJustFindMe 2y agoNot clearly. Anyway now that I know what you mean, I agree.
- talldayo 2y ago"I wonder why people are opposed to the guy acquitted of a horrible crime?" Just... so unclear.
- BugsJustFindMe 2y agoI'm not sure what you're trying to say or how it relates to this thread. Nothing in what you said connects to the words used in the original comment.
- mikeyouse 2y agoFair enough - I was trying to avoid the inevitable bottomless argument about whether his acquittal was justified or not, I can see where it was more vague than necessary though.
- jrflowers 2y agoIt was pretty clear that GP was talking about the topic of the article in the comments thread about the article.
- BugsJustFindMe 2y agoNow that this GP has agreed that what they said was vague, does that change your opinion at all?
- fullshark 2y agoHow else do you get attention? Quiet competence doesn’t work.
- Gud 2y agoNo, but opinionated competence does, if you’re in the right environment. If you’re not, I guess doing the bare minimum and STFU kinda works?
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- tipiirai 2y agoI miss times when tech investors focused on tech, and not in politics
- BugsJustFindMe 2y agoEverything intersects politics, including both tech and investing. Choosing to ignore politics is also politics.
- tipiirai 2y agoSure, but I certainly miss the days when they chose to ignore politics. Especially military stuff like Andreessen!
- rabbits77 2y agohttps://archive.is/aXptw https://archive.is/aXptw
- Hizonner 2y ago"It's critically important that we maintain a diverse team that's inclusive of scumbags. Many of our partners are scumbags, and we must have staff who can relate to them."