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Tech Company CEOs as Game of Thrones Characters

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Steve Ballmer is Hodor

man, I really wanted to say that in the text but it just felt a little bit too cruel :D

Hodor, hodor, hodor = Developers, developers, developers

this is kinda pissing me off. Melissa Meyer shares no personality traits with Khaleesi, but they are the same because she's the only woman leading a major tech company?

Saying Peter Cashmore is the equivalent of Jamie Lannister is even worse. Saying that one represents the other because they share "dashing good looks, their flowing blonde locks, their square jaws, their piercing eyes" (all of which fall under the category of "dashing good looks" btw) is like when dudes say that this chick and that chick both have big boobs, so their obviously the same, as if they are devoid of personality. Jamie is defined by his skills as a warrior and his DGAF attitude as much, if not more, than he is for his looks.

I will concede though that the comment of Elon Musk discovering alien life by staring idly at the sky one day was pretty funny.

oops, please don't let yourself get angry :)

some of these are because of actually-similar character traits, and a few are just-for-fun because of physical similarities. I tried to make that clear in the text.

Out of interest, who would be your Mother of Dragons?

Naval Ravikant. Not to accuse him of femininity, but I think he's building his own little army over at Angellist, and a few of them are bound to be Dragons in the near future.

ah good analogy, but arguably I could say the same thing about Mayer and her slew of recent acquisitions :) 37 acquisitions in 20 months (!!)

http://ibnlive.in.com/photogallery/15418.html

ya but not one of them is going to save Yahoo!. Yahoo!'s problem is that they're too large to be a media company but too small to be a technology company, so inevitably, they are neither.

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