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Comment by maxsavin | Hacker News Reader

I thought PG was building it into a joke.. the post sounds way too defensive.

Pretty much every single article written this year critical of Silicon Valley/startups/VCs has used the quote. If anything PG should have addressed it sooner.

Completely guessing here, but this feels like it was prompted by journalists pressing him about it, probably in relation to a diversity story.

In other words, they're likely using the quote as a club to hammer pg with. Maybe justifiably so, it really was kind of a dumb thing to say.

Just yesterday Jesse Jackson had an interview saying he thinks it's time for the government to get involved in tech company diversity, so there could be some more journalists preparing stories on the issue.

The issue is that I think most people did not interpret it as PG was saying. "Looks like Zuckerberg", when I first read this title, sounds a lot like "is like Zuckerberg", as in speech styles, personality and the like.

I wish PG would talk more about the cognitive bias in VCs. Too many women have to ask the question "how do I get VCs to take me seriously"

Indeed, it's a good general principle: Defensiveness never works. What does work? Counterattack.

With this post, the foundation has been laid for a counterattack. One way to do it would be to publicly name and shame any credentialed journalist who uses the quote out of context. Don't just be "curious how fixable this sort of bogus meme is"—use your formidable influence and numerous supporters to attack those who attack you.

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