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Who are these people? Why do they get all the money from wall street and then get to go around acting like they're gods? A monkey could have done a good job of
by guelo 12y ago
Who are these people? Why do they get all the money from wall street and then get to go around acting like they're gods? A monkey could have done a good job of throwing money around Sillicon Valley and picking a bunch of winners over the last 10 years. Why hire these prima donnas to do it? Wall Street is a corrupt joke.
- quaunaut 12y agoA lot of the money from these investors didn't come from Wall St., but from past successful Silicon Valley tech companies.
- chetanahuja 12y agoWell actually the main sources of venture funds are similar to where wall-street goes for it's investment funds. Institutions (pension funds, state and national level reserve funds etc), wealthy individuals, cash reserves from large companies etc.
- desireco42 12y agoBeautifully said :)
- neindanke 12y ago> Who are these people? Ellen Pao, Harvard MBA. Job history was corporate attorney, other non-technical jobs. Ajit Nazre, Michigan Tech PHD. Job history unclear. Google hits on him mostly indicate a skeezy character. If the BI article is credible, most startups including the ones in India have dropped him like a rock after the lawsuit came out. > Why do they get all the money? Good question. Most engineers fail to realize how critical all of them are. They fail to demand fair compensation for their time. Instead they treat pats-on-the-back, a beer bust, maybe a gifted $10 ticket to see a scifi movie as major rewards while their management takes the bulk of the compensation pie.
- cowsandmilk 12y agoAjit Nazre does not have a PhD from Michigan Tech, only a Masters. He has a PhD from Technische Universität Hannover and an MBA from Harvard. Ellen Pao has a JD from Harvard Law School in addition to her MBA.
- jkestner 12y agoShe also has an electrical engineering degree from Princeton.
- inthewoods 12y agoMaybe because their investors are Wall Street and other large financial players and they look at them and say "hey, you're just like me! I like me!"