Seems like a silly idea, what next, starting a forum?
> what next, starting a forum?
Starting HN worked well for YC.
Venture Capitalists Are Using Podcasts to Lure in Founders
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#42I sometimes listen to (parts of) the All-In podcast because I think it is useful to understand what powerful people in our industry think. The four of them are really quite unlikable, and I can confidently say that if any of them happen to read this comment then they would not care in the slightest that I said that.
I have the same thought process. What do they think about current high level trends, the economy, but otherwise I don't think very highly of them. The one bio science guy is decent, somewhat grounded compared to the others. I did get kind of tried of their non-stop AI hype train talk. Seems like for majority of the last 1-2 years that's all they've talked about most of the time.
For whatever it's worth, the bio science stuff is the equivalent of the AI hype, just in biology.
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#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
They'd probably say that likability is orthogonal to picking and mentoring successful startups.
But likability is correlated with convincing successful startups to accept their investments.
I think I was perhaps too subtle, I was critiquing a kind of anti-emotional intelligence you sometimes encounter among certain prominent tech figures.
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#44I sometimes listen to (parts of) the All-In podcast because I think it is useful to understand what powerful people in our industry think. The four of them are really quite unlikable, and I can confidently say that if any of them happen to read this comment then they would not care in the slightest that I said that.
I find it educational and entertaining. Even though I am not in the VC industry in the sense that I'm not raising money or currently VC-backed, I find their insights into financial markets to be very useful. That isn't to say that I think everything they say is true — it just means that it often provides insights into things that are happening or are about to happen.
This is partly because of who listens to the podcast, and what they do after hearing about things on the podcast. For example, they may help move markets a bit due to their insider (not in the sense of illegal) information regarding tech companies and trends.
Knowing that they have said XYZ can help explain why a certain stock popped or dropped, or was written about in a major media publication.
As for whether they would care what you said about them in an online forum...I would think that would apply to pretty much any podcaster — even ones with 1/1000th of their audience.
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
There always seems to be this implication in anti-VC rhetoric that founders are somehow gullible to VC's (whatever that means). I've yet to meet a founder where this is true.
Most people on HN aren't even founders or experienced ICs anymore. It seems to be burnt out junior ICs with a chip on their back, as well as a lot of overlap with some of the more toxic parts of Reddit.
Remember, you're not stuck in traffic, you are traffic.
Re: Venture Capitalists Are Using Podcasts to Lure in Founders
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
There always seems to be this implication in anti-VC rhetoric that founders are somehow gullible to VC's (whatever that means). I've yet to meet a founder where this is true.
Most people on HN aren't even founders or experienced ICs anymore. It seems to be burnt out junior ICs with a chip on their back, as well as a lot of overlap with some of the more toxic parts of Reddit.
As a Reddit refugee (post APIcalypse), I feel individually targeted