Name another VC that wears spurs
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Hanging up my spurs
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#172Earlier quoted context omitted.
These types of comments are always hilarious. Really? You think we've topped out on 1bn dollar companies in the year 2017? AI, Self Driving Cars, Improvements to Flying, SPACE!? You honestly think there's nothing left to invest in?
I'll believe AI is good for something other than YouTube recommending Top 40 music for me to play next, when Google News stops showing pictures of unrelated celebrities next to political stories (e.g.).
ML/AI is used all the time. Every check deposited via mobile phone uses character recognition. Every letter or package mailed also.
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#173Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes to ride their entrepreneurs.
Something about describing your retirement as "hanging up my spurs" bothers me on an unreasonable level. Unless you actually were a cowboy. I mean when I retire from IT work I hope I'm not going to tell people I'm "stowing away my space helmet and locking my plasma rifles in the cabinet".
He literally does wear spurs.
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#174Wow, 42 years old, huh? Hard not to be a little jealous. Being pretty close to his age, it's maddening to think that with a different roll of the dice I might have been that person. Or I might have been unemployed and a heroin addict in Appalachia. Life seems so random and non-deterministic. Good on him. I sometimes wonder why more people who are insanely rich don't just retire and spend the rest of their lives doing…
> Why go on working? Money isn't everything.
And, conversely, to some people money is everything and they can never have enough of it.
Re: Hanging up my spurs
#175Wow, 42 years old, huh? Hard not to be a little jealous. Being pretty close to his age, it's maddening to think that with a different roll of the dice I might have been that person. Or I might have been unemployed and a heroin addict in Appalachia. Life seems so random and non-deterministic. Good on him. I sometimes wonder why more people who are insanely rich don't just retire and spend the rest of their lives doing…
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#176Wow, 42 years old, huh? Hard not to be a little jealous. Being pretty close to his age, it's maddening to think that with a different roll of the dice I might have been that person. Or I might have been unemployed and a heroin addict in Appalachia. Life seems so random and non-deterministic. Good on him. I sometimes wonder why more people who are insanely rich don't just retire and spend the rest of their lives doing…
or he's a smart guy who put himself in a good position for success by getting into great schools and then making connections with the right people while at Google. You don't make the consistent home-run investments he has through complete luck.
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#177> As a rich white guy, being an activist/loudmouth in the #resistance often means taking up political positions that are against my own apparent self-interest. These oppressive zealots in the White House... > You mean beyond fighting a despotic regime... > I assure you, that’s not going to happen. Nevertheless, I am spending a great deal of time meeting with all of the beautifully spontaneous and decentralized organi…
Sacca is 'raising three wonderful kids' and 'passionate about solving our climate disaster'. The first thing to do to help climate change is to avoid reduce the population, not to increase it. Are only others supposed to make sacrifices?
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#178> As a rich white guy, being an activist/loudmouth in the #resistance often means taking up political positions that are against my own apparent self-interest. These oppressive zealots in the White House... > You mean beyond fighting a despotic regime... > I assure you, that’s not going to happen. Nevertheless, I am spending a great deal of time meeting with all of the beautifully spontaneous and decentralized organi…
Sacca is 'raising three wonderful kids' and 'passionate about solving our climate disaster'. The first thing to do to help climate change is to avoid reduce the population, not to increase it. Are only others supposed to make sacrifices?
Less bullshit TED-speak would help too.
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#179I think he's hinting at something political but not running for office. I'm guessing some sort of involvement in the 2020 Presidential Campaign for some Dem or Alt candidate.
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#180Fantastic!! I feel that one feels most alive when you're involved in some struggle. And if you've really achieved a high level of excellence in your field...may be the right time to trying something new! Michael Jordan tried baseball! That said, I feel getting involved in political issues is mostly a losing situation because your power (even the power of the president as we've seen perhaps thankfully in the past 90 d…
>getting the exam dates shifted three days earlier from a Tuesday to a Friday.
That's three days later. Or four days earlier.