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If someone is trying to disrupt the very core of your business probably you won't like them nowhere near you. Stephens shouldn't be surprised.

• rhizome 14y ago
  His rationale is highly self-serving, bordering on disingenuous: "I was just amazed that Hendrix was, like, so opposed to this idea of even engaging in a conversation two years later,” he added." Pulling condescending word games about what he's doing as "a conversation." "Hey man, I just want to talk." Well no, and this tack is practically straight out of the book, "The Gift of Fear." "It got me thinking that this had nothing all to do with Hendrix and everything to do with the way the entire system is designed." Ah, see? It's not just Hendrix, but the entire system. Nothing personal, you see. If this is how people learn to act under the Thiel umbrella...
  • dyno12345 14y ago
    It's not how they learn to act, it's what the program selects for - skill in bullshit artistry. I've met two or three few Thiel fellows - smart people who were very good at presentation and toastmasters 101 cheap public speaking tricks, and whose aggrandized claims often turned into a shrug whence I asked for specifics.
• tmarthal 14y ago
  Right. It seems that Hendrix is a private institution. The company and book he was promoting was the antithesis of how that private college makes money. Why would anyone there allow him to promote something that completely removes their funding source?