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Re: Andreessen Horowitz is opening an office in SF

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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…

But having no qualms to spout colonialist bullshit, when a country does something that he doesn't like[1]

Especially ironic considering that it was geared towards India's decision to ban Facebook's "free internet". A decision, which looks in hindsight, extremely smart.

[1] https://money.cnn.com/2016/02/10/technology/marc-andreessen-...

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Re: Andreessen Horowitz is opening an office in SF

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I work for a start-up with offices in Sunnyvale, California. Our staff is mature people who have done this before and want the best place to establish an office and work. None of us would dream of living or working in San Francisco. We all live and work in and around Sunnyvale, Mountain View, Santa Clara, etc. For a mostly-hype startup staffed by kids fresh from Stanford, Harvard, and MIT, I suppose the flashier the…

I would have thought Sunnyvale would be pretty pricey too. It's like right between Google and Apple.

Exactly! But for some reason young people moving to CA to "make it" wouldn't dream of living here.
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