Sequoia COO quit over Shaun Maguire's comments about Mamdani
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#3For all of the worship these guys get for being mega geniuses, they sure say a lot of ignorant shit.
Re: Sequoia COO quit over Shaun Maguire's comments about Mamdani
#4For all of the worship these guys get for being mega geniuses, they sure say a lot of ignorant shit.
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#5Re: Sequoia COO quit over Shaun Maguire's comments about Mamdani
#6For all of the worship these guys get for being mega geniuses, they sure say a lot of ignorant shit.
One of the issues with folks like that, is that they often consider themselves to be "Übermensch," and thus, cannot be held to the same standards as others (I won't use the other "-mensch" term, because that would Godwin the discussion).
Not just really smart people. Very rich people (usually second-or-beyond-generation rich. First-generation rich folks aren't usually that way -unless they are polymaths).
They feel that they can say whatever the hell they want, and no one can hold them to account (and they are frequently correct).
Re: Sequoia COO quit over Shaun Maguire's comments about Mamdani
#7For all of the worship these guys get for being mega geniuses, they sure say a lot of ignorant shit.
How much of this zeitgeist is fueled by Elon’s ketamine dependency issues? Certainly non zero!
Re: Sequoia COO quit over Shaun Maguire's comments about Mamdani
#8As much trash as he talks, Maguire isn't entirely wrong.
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#9For all of the worship these guys get for being mega geniuses, they sure say a lot of ignorant shit.
If we're talking about Sequoia, I think you'd be hard-pressed to find something more entertaining than this fawning puff piece on Sam Bankman-Fried
https://web.archive.org/web/20221027181005/https://www.sequo...
Highlights: https://www.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/comments/101sjn2/imagine_b...
Re: Sequoia COO quit over Shaun Maguire's comments about Mamdani
#10For all of the worship these guys get for being mega geniuses, they sure say a lot of ignorant shit.
Apparently https://shaunmaguire.fyi - he's monstrous, to be curt, being a wealthy and powerful bigot:
- said some bigoted things on X about Islam (the entire religion) and
- some racist and culturally stereotyping / xenophobic / Islamophobic stuff by "[Mamdani is brown therefore he is XYZ culture which itself is a bad culture]" (my summary also from the X tweet) logic.