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Announcing a new GV general partner: MG Siegler

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14 pointskevingibbon13 comments

MG Siegler built his fame from pageviews, and the pageviews were of his incessant strategy of creating flame-bait for the idiotic, but large, minority of people who think that their smart-phone is an extension of themselves.

Here is his recipe:

1) State that, in some way, Apple is better than Android in an absurdly over the top, intellectually dishonest way.

2) Let the religious masses passionately state their love/hatred

3) Profit.

None of this makes him remotely qualified for anything in the tech business.

I would think that the partners at Google Ventures who spent weeks interviewing and vetting (and ultimately hiring) Siegler would have a much better idea of his qualifications for working in this space than you would.

..but iOS is better than Android. ;)

Sadly you just described most of the tech press (substitute any competing technologies and companies in step 1). I guess it worked for John Dvorak and Slashdot and plenty of others back in the day. :( BGR seems to be going in the same direction from the opposite perspective. What I like about Ars is that, while they have plenty of super opinionated writers in all camps, there seems to be editorial pressure to not let anything get too hyperbolic or cross the line into disinformation.

Not to be snarky, but this seems like a major win for Google in at least two ways:

1.) Tap into Siegler's influence and impressive list of contacts.

2.) Shut down a rather effective, vocal critic of your company. I can't imagine Siegler will continue his current line of Google rhetoric.

I would agree on the 2nd point but trust me, anyone "influential" would be easily accessible to Google Ventures. This is only helpful to startups and maybe an unknown venture fund.

Wow didn't see that coming I suppose Google knows what they’re doing though. Is KR also a general partner?

I threw up in my mouth a little bit reading the title.

For some reason I would find it hard to take him seriously as a business person.

That is why Bill Maris, the managing partner at Google Ventures, wrote: "MG Siegler is joining Google Ventures as a general partner (...) we’re thrilled to add his unique perspective."

What happened to Crunch Fund?

Crunch-what?

wat

I usually downvote snarky superfluous comments like this on HN, but find myself tempted to actually upvote this one.

Hammer. Nail. Head.

Must... resist...

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