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Longtime Sequoia Capital Partner Greg McAdoo To Depart The Firm
- lifeisstillgood 14y agoWhat leapt out at me was the quote from Sequoia His wikipedic knowledge, quick wit, Hang on - Encyclopaedic knowledge yes but Wikipedic? If we are looking for signs of the time the Internet goes past mainstream and into ubiquitous utility, it's when brand names become nouns. Ah well. My parents had a full copy of the encyclopaedia Britannia and I would occasionally improve my mind - but I use wikipedia daily. It deserves to be the next Hoover.
- DanBC 14y agoBut it's weird. "Encyclopedic" has connotations of authoritative and wide-ranging knowledge. "Wikipedic" just seems chaotic or user-changable or pointless-lists-of-useless-knowledge.
- PakG1 14y agoSomething like that is determined by the course of history. If the rest of the population deems it a good replacement for encyclopedic, it will replace encyclopedic, or be used at a level on par with encyclopedic. The best example I can think of is the word gay. The Christmas carol lyric, "Don we now our gay apparel" did not mean gay the way we use it today. It's not up to individuals to decide what Wikipedic could mean or the connotations it has. It's up to the general population. And HN is a very focused niche of the general population, so not necessarily representative of the general population. I'm just saying who knows? You might change your mind one day.
- daniel-cussen 14y agoPerhaps he means wikipedic in the sense of someone whose knowledge is so vast it could only be attained by surfing wikipedia endlessly.
- ChuckMcM 14y agoOr maybe he means a wide range of knowledge of dubious authenticity which is not even self consistent :-) As a sideways insult it has great potential, like that old chestnut "Nobody would be better for this job than Bob here."
- lifeisstillgood 14y agoNothing is better than quotes like that :-)
- DannyBee 14y agoIt means his knowledge changes randomly and is sometimes vandalized
- randall 14y agoI'll always think of him as a) a hugely likable person the few times i've interacted with him personally, and b) the VC that codes. He built an iPhone app which I think is in the app store. Wonder why someone would leave one of the most respected positions in tech. New things, I guess.
- drusenko 14y agoWhen we were doing diligence with Sequoia, they brought in Greg to dig in on the technical side. Needless to say, this man knows his stuff. Not often you meet a VC who still codes and is familiar with the inner workings of BGP.