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Daniel Penny Gets Hired by Andreessen Horowitz
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#32> “He will learn the business of investing and he will work to support our portfolio companies,” wrote Ulevitch in a note sent to all employees this afternoon. By their own admission he isn’t qualified for the job. He’s been hired because of who he is rather than the skills he brings. …wait, I thought A16Z didn’t like that stuff! Is Penny a DEI hire? (in case you were wondering, yes, this thread got flagged to death)
> He’s been hired because of who he is rather than the skills he brings.
Were you calling Hunter Biden to account for his skills when it was revealed he made millions of dollars from Burisma in a role he ostensibly had no qualification?
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
If the man had experience in investing, then maybe you'd have an argument. As it stands you couldn't tell him from Adam when it comes to investment experience so the only plausible explanation for hiring him is that its political and thus says something about Andreeseen
People get hired for nepotism, for politics, for street smarts, for their smile, for the crease in their trousers, because the guy hiring them had a good morning, or because they're actually good at what they do. You've called this one out as bad. Well, it probably is bad. if I invested through this company I'd be upset. But the thing is, its "hunt for keys under lampost, not because I lost them there, but because it…
> You've called this one out as bad. Well, it probably is bad. if I invested through this company I'd be upset. But the thing is, its "hunt for keys under lampost, not because I lost them there, but because it's lit up" bad: You know this hire does not make much sense. The other hires, you are letting through because (I believe) you implicitly assume they can learn to do the job, all other bad reasons for hire not withstanding. Why can't he learn them too?
I can’t tell if you’re taking the piss out of me or not. Do you really think that because no one’s perfect that means hiring someone with no experience in a complex job is equivalent to hiring someone with experience?
Re: Daniel Penny Gets Hired by Andreessen Horowitz
#34> “He will learn the business of investing and he will work to support our portfolio companies,” wrote Ulevitch in a note sent to all employees this afternoon. By their own admission he isn’t qualified for the job. He’s been hired because of who he is rather than the skills he brings. …wait, I thought A16Z didn’t like that stuff! Is Penny a DEI hire? (in case you were wondering, yes, this thread got flagged to death)
Beyond embarrassing that those bootlucking fucking crybabies at a16z flagged this so hard, as if their brand isn't already in the absolute toilet.
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
Athlete and celebrity in VC or PE are hired because of the money they can attract from others, which is a type qualification, probably the same reason here.
Lol and diversity of people has always been proven to produce better ideas and companies. The attempts to justify tying yourselves into knots!
In fact, just take a look at the "merit-based" hires the administration that they get on 3-hour podcasts to defend makes. Hegeth, Gaetz, Bondi, Noem --truly leaders of their respective fields surely. This is what you get when you have a small group of people only breathing the air of each others' delusions in a windowless room with no natural light.
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#36> “He will learn the business of investing and he will work to support our portfolio companies,” wrote Ulevitch in a note sent to all employees this afternoon. By their own admission he isn’t qualified for the job. He’s been hired because of who he is rather than the skills he brings. …wait, I thought A16Z didn’t like that stuff! Is Penny a DEI hire? (in case you were wondering, yes, this thread got flagged to death)
> He’s been hired because of who he is rather than the skills he brings. Were you calling Hunter Biden to account for his skills when it was revealed he made millions of dollars from Burisma in a role he ostensibly had no qualification?
Fine, I'll bite. Hunter Biden is a Doctor of Law from Yale.
Daniel Penny has graduated from a high school.
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#37I feel ashamed to work at a startup, reading this. Thankfully I've seen how dysfunctional A16Z is up-close and don't have much hope for their future competence.
What about this makes you feel ashamed to work at a startup?
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#38Penny was rightly acquitted. https://nypost.com/2024/11/08/opinion/subway-rider-thanked-d... Subway rider thanked Daniel Penny for saving riders from Jordan Neely — possibly the most important gesture of his life
What investment criteria does he have? DEI HIRE! It was the right the whole time. Once again telling on themselves.
Half of the people I know in finance don't actually have finance degrees. Hell, half the people I know in tech don't have computer science / engineering / software engineering degrees.
It makes total sense why he was hired. He's clearly not afraid to make a hard choice and he's more than willing to live with the potential consequences. This indicates an appetite for risk that most people are simply unwilling to tolerate.
Penny's goal wasn't to kill Neely, it was to subdue him, but like most people who aren't used to being made to obey law and order, he fought and ended up killing himself because of it.
Yeah, the boy has a tragic story. No doubt about that. But like a lot of homeless mentally ill people, the help is there if you want it. And that's the problem. Before Republicans gutted mental health funding in this country, you were getting help whether you wanted it or not. Now you can "choose" to be a drag on society - with few consequences. We need to go back to saying, "You can choose to take your medicine(s) and be a functioning member of society or you can go hang out with Nurse Ratched all day. Your choice."
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#39Penny was rightly acquitted. https://nypost.com/2024/11/08/opinion/subway-rider-thanked-d... Subway rider thanked Daniel Penny for saving riders from Jordan Neely — possibly the most important gesture of his life
Judge, jury and executioner? Acquittal.... okay but acting like Judge Dredd merits a job offer? That is sick.
Jordan Neely killed himself, like what happens in a lot of these cases. People think they can act any way they want in public and then are shocked when someone bigger, stronger, meaner, and tougher comes along and makes them obey the rules of decent society and the laws of the land.
And despite what people think, that isn't the function of police. Police were created to protect the merchant class and their businesses.
In times long past, when everyone went heeled, you acted politely or you got yourself shot to death for being a jackass. This is why so-called "civilized" people have such bad manners... because they don't run the risk of someone cracking their skull wide open when they mouth off, much less actually threaten innocent people just trying to ride home on the subway.
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
Athlete and celebrity in VC or PE are hired because of the money they can attract from others, which is a type qualification, probably the same reason here.
For the athlete side at least I feel like being elite athlete signals that you're very competitive and drive towards excellence. You'll see competitive industries value things like strong chess players. Basically anything that signals obsessive drive.
And some athletes can invest their own money. I think players for GSW invested a lot in tech.