Was there a question that they were ever anything else?
A16Z blogs are just glorified marketing
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#52This reminds me of Benn Stancil’s post — “The posters decide”
Winners in the tech space are increasingly pre-determined by VC-influencer cos/ individuals, who create the buzz around products.
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#54Most things in america are paid ads in disguise: these posts, blogs by mckinsey/bcg/big 4 accounting firms, news is often a paid ad/agenda in disguise. You're honestly better off spending time with your family and developing a small hobby. ~ musings from a late 30s guy
Or using all of this and becoming massively wealthy.
I think you’re forgetting the ??? step
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#55Most things in america are paid ads in disguise: these posts, blogs by mckinsey/bcg/big 4 accounting firms, news is often a paid ad/agenda in disguise. You're honestly better off spending time with your family and developing a small hobby. ~ musings from a late 30s guy
Or using all of this and becoming massively wealthy.
Shit why didn't I think of that??
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#56I'm not sure why the author takes such umbrage at A16Z promoting its own portfolio companies. It is their blog after all.
Since A16Z is famous, any bias advertisement can lead to monopolization and do damage to the production competition. Any kind of monopolization needs to get supervised.
I think you mean "unfair advantage" rather than "monopolization", and the existence of former is much harder to argue
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#57So are McDonald’s posts. Why else would a venture capitalist firm have a blog?
No kidding, here is “Strangulating the monolith to a pluggable and scalable architecture” on Medium, which thinks so highly of it you have to sign in to read:
https://medium.com/mcdonalds-technical-blog/strangulating-th...
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#58Most things in america are paid ads in disguise: these posts, blogs by mckinsey/bcg/big 4 accounting firms, news is often a paid ad/agenda in disguise. You're honestly better off spending time with your family and developing a small hobby. ~ musings from a late 30s guy
Or using all of this and becoming massively wealthy.
there's enough counter advice at this point to suggest against "playing entrepreneur" in favor of you know, getting stuff done.
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#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
What part is so bad? Care to quote?
This is a good question. What differentiates his six thousand word manifesto from all of the totally normal six thousand word manifestos that are written by completely normal people on a daily basis?
Considering that "manifesto" just means "essay describing an opinion", I don't think your repetition of the word is the indictment you intended.
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#60Is this an April fool’s joke?