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Re: Andreessen Horowitz is opening an office in SF

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Post by chx »

geomark wrote: post #105
chx wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's their founders personal account that blocks everyone and I am reasonable sure it's a personality trait.

Andreesen blocked me, a little nobody, when I had a different opinion than him when he was supporting an argument for an investment in some kind of app targeted at young people in Southeast Asia. The app was supposed to aid them in their entrepreneurial endeavors (or somethign like that). His comment was something along the lines that the app would be highly utilized because just about every young person in Southeast…

I do not even know why Andreessen and Benedict Evans blocked me but they both did. I can't find now because the last pmarca tweet I replied to has been deleted. Perhaps I wasn't the only one who disagreed there :) ?

Re: Andreessen Horowitz is opening an office in SF

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Post by twblalock »

JohnJamesRambo wrote: post #89

The “Peak California” article seems very appropriate right now.

Nah, it's just a repetition of predictions that people have been making for decades. It has nothing new to offer -- just the same old tropes about California's inevitable decline and the rise of alternative Silicon Valleys in other states that never materialize.

Re: Andreessen Horowitz is opening an office in SF

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Post by chx »

pj_mukh wrote: post #80

I wonder how much of this is just because of the failure of Bay Area-wide fast public transit. BART never made it to the peninsula and electrification of Caltrain is taking its sweet time. The only remaining option seems for everyone to crowd into SF :/.

What I always found fascinating (from very far, mind you) is how unconnected the entire area is -- while you can drive from Fremont to Palo Alto in half an hour (outside of peak hours at least) or from Hayward to San Mateo if you try this with public transit, it often becomes the proverbial "you can't get there from here" at least not without going into San Jose or San Francisco. Is there a reason there's almost no public transit on the Dumbarton and San Mateo bridges?

Re: Andreessen Horowitz is opening an office in SF

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Post by loceng »

geomark wrote: post #105
chx wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's their founders personal account that blocks everyone and I am reasonable sure it's a personality trait.

Andreesen blocked me, a little nobody, when I had a different opinion than him when he was supporting an argument for an investment in some kind of app targeted at young people in Southeast Asia. The app was supposed to aid them in their entrepreneurial endeavors (or somethign like that). His comment was something along the lines that the app would be highly utilized because just about every young person in Southeast…

Sounds like he may have insecurity and anger issues, not being able to process/let emotion settle and has to take some sort of action to 'protect' himself from what he perceives as too strong of a potential trigger. That certainly will make a person fragile, also may lead them to be hyper-confident in their beliefs, perception of passion and confidence is attractive to many people who don't analyze situations deeply.

Re: Andreessen Horowitz is opening an office in SF

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Post by atlasunshrugged »

goseeastarwar wrote: post #102
Judgmentality wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> If you are in tech, it is incredibly energetic. I've never understood this. I'd like to be surrounded by people that don't all do the same thing as me. I want to meet new and interesting people, not expand the bubble around me. I already interact with everyone at work most of my day, now I have to interact with people that fit that mold even when I'm not working? Different strokes for different folks, but SF has al…

It's great when you're fresh out of school, single, and want to bury yourself in the work. It's unbelievably annoying after a few years when you're just trying to have dinner with your wife without overhearing someone talking about raising a round at the table next to you.

Exactly, after moving to Berlin from SF I couldn't believe that I could overhear conversations about art and music and a thousand other things and not the usual talk about what VC you met and how much X company is valued. Incredibly refreshing

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Post by paganel »

sremani wrote: post #56
paxys wrote: post #26

Almost every big tech IPO of 2019 (Uber, Lyft, Pinterest, Slack, Postmates, Airbnb, Instacart) is headquartered in SF. It's undeniable that the center of silicon valley is slowly shifting north.

Every body wants to cash out before boomers leave equity markets and move into T-bills.

I'm not a specialist by any means but isn't most of the boomers' money held by pension funds and the like? Which pension funds and the like mostly use passive-investing nowadays (or techniques used by the passive-investing types, like index-tracking), which actually means buying stocks and being present on the equity markets.

What I mean is that it's not the boomers' decision to make in regards to where their money is actually invested.

Re: Andreessen Horowitz is opening an office in SF

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Post by eloisant »

Judgmentality wrote: post #91
dmode wrote: post #79

It is surreal to commute and work in SF. I take BART or Caltrain to work and amazed every day to see hundreds of thousands of engineers, product managers, sales people, data scientists get off in Embarcadero and walk to their destination. If you are in tech, it is incredibly energetic. I play “backpack bingo”, where I try to identify someone’s employer from their backpack

> If you are in tech, it is incredibly energetic. I've never understood this. I'd like to be surrounded by people that don't all do the same thing as me. I want to meet new and interesting people, not expand the bubble around me. I already interact with everyone at work most of my day, now I have to interact with people that fit that mold even when I'm not working? Different strokes for different folks, but SF has al…

It's great the first year, to be surrounded by people like you. Then it feels really boring.

Re: Andreessen Horowitz is opening an office in SF

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Post by cylinder »

chrischen wrote: post #109
cylinder wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Insane we are talking about electrifying a train line in 2019 in the tech capital of America.

Population and density have been low enough that a of peninsula people own cars.

Don't think that's it. Even Brisbane (Queensland) electrified its suburban rail in the late 1970s.

Re: Andreessen Horowitz is opening an office in SF

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Post by geomark »

loceng wrote: post #115
geomark wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Andreesen blocked me, a little nobody, when I had a different opinion than him when he was supporting an argument for an investment in some kind of app targeted at young people in Southeast Asia. The app was supposed to aid them in their entrepreneurial endeavors (or somethign like that). His comment was something along the lines that the app would be highly utilized because just about every young person in Southeast…

Sounds like he may have insecurity and anger issues, not being able to process/let emotion settle and has to take some sort of action to 'protect' himself from what he perceives as too strong of a potential trigger. That certainly will make a person fragile, also may lead them to be hyper-confident in their beliefs, perception of passion and confidence is attractive to many people who don't analyze situations deeply.

It seems to me to be more that a16z just wants to squelch anything that doesn't support their agenda. They are always talking up their latest startup no matter how flimsy it may be. Anything critical said about the regard as hate speech. A place like Hacker News is anathema to them since people here are more often critical and less often buy the hype. Which is why they call it Hater News.
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