Meh, I think this is probably not the best intro to a good discussion. I sympathize with the impulse to mock Tom Perkins (and he probably deserves it), and VCs

Meh, I think this is probably not the best intro to a good discussion. I sympathize with the impulse to mock Tom Perkins (and he probably deserves it), and VCs being idiots is a time-honored genre of tech discussion. But judging by the Slashdot discussion on this same article that started an hour or two ago, it doesn't seem likely to be productive. Either we will all agree "yeah, that was a stupid analogy and also Tom Perkins might be crazy", or a few people will try to defend it and then those threads will trail off into argument, either way, meh.