This is more of a classic lesson in what effect can alcohol have on one's life and career.
'Stupid,' 'shameful:' Tech workers on Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan's rant
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#52I had no idea who Dan Preston was until Tan complained about him, but given
> In 2022, Preston proposed a ballot measure to tax vacant housing in San Francisco.
I think I might just love the guy. Thanks for the awareness campaign Garry!
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#53As a YC alum who worked with Gary Tan directly, this is… odd. Anyone who knows Gary knows he’s a (relatively) gentle human being. I can’t imagine him hurting a fly. His tweets seem totally out of character compared to the Gary Tan I personally knew. Maybe he has changed? I’m inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt.
There’s a lot of “gentle human beings” who have turned out to be horrific monsters in the end.
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#55As a YC alum who worked with Gary Tan directly, this is… odd. Anyone who knows Gary knows he’s a (relatively) gentle human being. I can’t imagine him hurting a fly. His tweets seem totally out of character compared to the Gary Tan I personally knew. Maybe he has changed? I’m inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt.
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#56IMO, it is bad to threaten people with painful deaths. Apparently that is a controversial opinion within this community.
I don't think it is very controversial and haven't seen anyone actively saying it is a good thing. I think all division and debate is around if and how much anyone should care.
I see a lot of declarations that it is bad, inexcusable, disgusting, ect. What I dont see is what people think the implications or consequences of that determination are. When someone says that, what do they want to happen?
Do they just want other people to acknowledge it was bad, and then everyone goes on with their life? Do the police make them wear a scarlet letter or send them out into the wilderness. Does it mean that people should unfollow them on twitter?
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#57IMO, it is bad to threaten people with painful deaths. Apparently that is a controversial opinion within this community.
It isn’t illegal to say what he said but it’s not the right tone for his position. The slow drop into political violence begins with speech normalizing calling for death and murder. I just hope everyone outraged analyzes their own speech. I hold a lot of opinions outside the bounds of cocktail conversation, but I was having cocktails with my (blue city, professional) friends and they made a joke about someone needing…
Assuming the report of what he wrote is true…
What he said won’t cause someone to kill any of those people. Thats just nonsense.
However, ranting drunk and incoherent publicly as the CEO of company shows terrible character.
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You do realize that the first amendment protects individuals from prosecution for protected speech, right? It does not guarantee protection from professional or social consequences. For some reason this distinction is very hard to understand for people of certain political stripes. Regardless, death threats are not protected under the first amendment, so you're even wrong under your idiotic assumptions of how the law…
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#60As a YC alum who worked with Gary Tan directly, this is… odd. Anyone who knows Gary knows he’s a (relatively) gentle human being. I can’t imagine him hurting a fly. His tweets seem totally out of character compared to the Gary Tan I personally knew. Maybe he has changed? I’m inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt.
It's more the state of modern social media.
Post Elon acquisition, many influential tech figures have discovered that being a provocateur on Twitter/X is more consistently successful at building an audience than genuine insight.