An Open Letter To Randi Zuckerberg: How Could You Do This to Real Entrepreneurs?
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Re: An Open Letter To Randi Zuckerberg: How Could You Do This to Real Entrepreneurs?
#2Because people are people.
Because we are potentially petty, petulant, persistent.
Because fame and money motivates us differently.
So that puts us at this awkward impasse.
Either you, Sarah Lacy, have no clue and can't read people well or know the real story behind all this but decided this is an opportunity to sell yourself.
Or Randi Zuckerberg is a sellout as you said.
Re: An Open Letter To Randi Zuckerberg: How Could You Do This to Real Entrepreneurs?
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Re: An Open Letter To Randi Zuckerberg: How Could You Do This to Real Entrepreneurs?
#4It’s a Bravo Reality show. Of course they’re going to sex it up. Does anyone really think the “Real Housewives” resemble real housewives? If they taped real developers in their natural habitat, it would just be a timelapse of someone sitting in front of a monitor.
Re: An Open Letter To Randi Zuckerberg: How Could You Do This to Real Entrepreneurs?
#5"How on earth can Randi Zuckerberg — who saw the angst over that movie by the people it affected most — sell herself out to Hollywood’s desire to make Silicon Valley look like, as the pilot says, “high school”?"
Angst?
LIFE is like high school. Popularity matters. Schmoozing and getting along with people matters. Achievement matters, but less so than social skills. College is arguably somewhat more a meritocracy, but 'real life' reverts back to being more like high school than college.
I don't say that as a bad thing, but I had to do some mental adjustment once I had that realization.
Re: An Open Letter To Randi Zuckerberg: How Could You Do This to Real Entrepreneurs?
#6Actually the most shameful thing about the Bravo show is that it refers to Randi Zuckerberg as an "internet entrepreneur."
Re: An Open Letter To Randi Zuckerberg: How Could You Do This to Real Entrepreneurs?
#7Hyperbole much? She is an entertainment content producer. She is producing entertainment. She is not making a documentary. And only idiots and people looking for a cheap joke really think jersey shore is an actual representation of new jersey... It's more a characterization of long island!
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#8What's next? How about: Get 5-10 early-stage startups with decent ideas, put them in a huge house (or office building with several offices) and film them all as they make progress on their product. YC, but being filmed all the time. Judges consist of Silicon Valley bigwigs (PG, some VCs, etc.). The "winners" get funded at the end. The show's title: Series A.
No shirtless club dancing. No dumbasses.
I'm not saying this would paint a more accurate picture for viewers, but I'd definitely be interested in watching it. Call me crazy?
Re: An Open Letter To Randi Zuckerberg: How Could You Do This to Real Entrepreneurs?
#9It’s a Bravo Reality show. Of course they’re going to sex it up. Does anyone really think the “Real Housewives” resemble real housewives? If they taped real developers in their natural habitat, it would just be a timelapse of someone sitting in front of a monitor.
Exactly. The main export of Hollywood has always been escapism. I don't worry about the opinion of anyone who takes the bile Hollywood spits out as their main source of information on what the world is like.
Re: An Open Letter To Randi Zuckerberg: How Could You Do This to Real Entrepreneurs?
#10Because people are people. Because we are potentially petty, petulant, persistent. Because fame and money motivates us differently. So that puts us at this awkward impasse. Either you, Sarah Lacy, have no clue and can't read people well or know the real story behind all this but decided this is an opportunity to sell yourself. Or Randi Zuckerberg is a sellout as you said.
Sarah Lacy got her start at Techcrunch, IIRC. QED if IARC.