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What Silicon Valley Insiders Think of Peter Thiel’s Speech at RNC

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Post by shanacarp »

pohungc wrote: post #21
neom wrote: post #10

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Some people are building toys for children, some people are building tools for humans. Both are fine, in moderation. I think we see more and more the NYC tech culture feels like they are trying to build real things, the valley is stuck in consumerism and has lost the ability to push the needle, much of this is due to poorly considered greed and linear thinking. :(

What are some of the most impactful things being built in the NYC tech scene?

So there are actually other things being built in NYC that are very not scenish at all.

Like Vroom - no one talks about the used car market, but they are huge. Knewton and Schoology, two other big company no one treats as huge unless you are into ed-tech Kinnek just raised a huge round, they are trying to be an amazon of suppliers

All of these things are impactful, but, well, weird. There are a LOT of those types of things in NYC

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Post by 650REDHAIR »

neom wrote: post #103
pohungc wrote: post #21

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What are some of the most impactful things being built in the NYC tech scene?

pinterest, etsy, fab, digitalocean, buzzfeed, any media platform, guilt, foursquare, seamless web, app nexsus, etc. I could literally list 100.

So pinterest, fab, buzzfeed, guilt, and foursquare are "tools for humans" and startups like, oh I don't know, Tesla in SV/SF, are toys?

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Post by markonthewall »

w1ntermute wrote: post #18
sievebrain wrote: post #17

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What is "linear thinking"?

It's one of those buzzwordy terms currently in vogue in the tech industry. It's a hipper way of saying "not creative/disruptive". The b-school equivalent would be "thinking inside the box". For example, here's sama (president of YC)[0]: > Very rare and extremely powerful combination: the ability to think both clearly and very non-linearly. Most people lucky to have one. An example of nonlinear thinking by sama[1]: >…

Afaik the folks at F8 started the trend, I heard them use that idiom back in 2009 (F8 didn't exist yet)

Re: What Silicon Valley Insiders Think of Peter Thiel’s Speech at RNC

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Post by neom »

650REDHAIR wrote: post #112
neom wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

pinterest, etsy, fab, digitalocean, buzzfeed, any media platform, guilt, foursquare, seamless web, app nexsus, etc. I could literally list 100.

So pinterest, fab, buzzfeed, guilt, and foursquare are "tools for humans" and startups like, oh I don't know, Tesla in SV/SF, are toys?

You named Tesla, bravo...?
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