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> and partly because billionaires get less than zero sympathy if they talk about having difficult lives

That quote from the essay reminds me of a Silicon Valley scene [1] where the CEO of the pseudo-Google company in the show gets vilified (rightfully so in the show) for complaining about how hard billionaires have it in this country.

I bet the creator's read PG's essay and were inspired by it.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5zQpN28xa4

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That scene was inspired by Thomas Perkins' letter to WSJ.

http://www.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230454950457...

Seeing as former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo joined the show as a writer I think this isn't a huge leap.

I don't think he has a writer credit, does he? I thought he was under "script consultant" like Matt Cutts and other industry peeps, who I imagine get calls and say "yeah do that," or "you should include X."

No, he is much more involved than that.

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/how-silicon-va...

I dunno, from what's described it sounds like his input was on par with Andreesen's, except he wanted to be more involved. He's not mentioned after the first third of the article.

Or they read the news.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-01-26/kleiner-p...

>pseudo-Google company

I don't get why people think Hooli is some pseudo-Google company. In the Silicon Valley universe Google clearly exists. Eric Schmidt was in their series premiere and the show's opening intro animation clearly shows Google and YouTube.

It's because they probably can't use Google but they wanted a Google. It's a writing device to get around that inconvenient fact.

It's a composite of recognizable bad habits of a bunch of well known companies, including Google.

Hooli strikes me as a Google-sized Uber.

I cannot believe that the privileged rich created such shows to disguise their unjustified fortune; and still intelligent people believe these superficial arguments.

billionaires == jews?

Can something be more wrong?

It's not clear to me if you are aware that the video you are commenting on is from a comedy show satirizing Silicon Valley and it's billionaires...

Gotta hand it to them for the realism though getting the actual code conference interviewers.

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