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Andreessen Horowitz Defends Hiring of Daniel Penny to Its Investors

nytimes.com

21 pointsjrflowers18 comments

I miss the days when everyone wasn't trying to be edgy. It's just so exhausting.

What do you mean? I don’t know the backstory here. And the article is paywalled

What are you calling edgy here? The author? The topic? The VC firm? The HN submitter? NYT readers?

What you've done here is called "vaguebooking", defined as the act of posting intentionally unclear messages on social media to get attention or sympathy. It's...very edgy, and indeed exhausting.

Clearly the VC firm who hired and then issued a press release about hiring the utterly unqualified Penny to their "American Dynamism" team.

Not clearly. Anyway now that I know what you mean, I agree.

"I wonder why people are opposed to the guy acquitted of a horrible crime?"

Just... so unclear.

I'm not sure what you're trying to say or how it relates to this thread. Nothing in what you said connects to the words used in the original comment.

Fair enough - I was trying to avoid the inevitable bottomless argument about whether his acquittal was justified or not, I can see where it was more vague than necessary though.

It was pretty clear that GP was talking about the topic of the article in the comments thread about the article.

Now that this GP has agreed that what they said was vague, does that change your opinion at all?

How else do you get attention? Quiet competence doesn’t work.

No, but opinionated competence does, if you’re in the right environment. If you’re not, I guess doing the bare minimum and STFU kinda works?

https://archive.is/aXptw

"It's critically important that we maintain a diverse team that's inclusive of scumbags. Many of our partners are scumbags, and we must have staff who can relate to them."

I miss times when tech investors focused on tech, and not in politics

Everything intersects politics, including both tech and investing. Choosing to ignore politics is also politics.

Sure, but I certainly miss the days when they chose to ignore politics. Especially military stuff like Andreessen!

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