1/Or maybe @cwarzel you don’t want to paint a rich VC’s fence by giving up your attention & analysis gratis. Reminds me of when Facebook was bugging everyone to do FB Live. Alls I could reply was: What is the actual benefit to anyone BUT FB?
https://twitter.com/cwarzel/status/1358821302476234762
2/It is certainly good for those who need or want to make a splash or as a place for new voices to emerge. The real benefit of the service to users imho is in the non-famous-for-SV groups that are creative and additive to life and work in some way.
3/The panoply of achingly dull “interviews” w/famed dudes is fine. Being in the same room, even virtual, is exciting, like being near a celeb at a cocktail party & you don’t care that a lot of it is retread remarks/PR. But it’ll get tired like those endless SV VC parties did.
4/This sounds like a column TK, except it feels small compared to important issues like climate change, pandemic recovery and the seismic shifts in our politics in the wake of the Capitol attacks. But I get that people want to talk in a safe space & if that works for them, yay.
5/As for me, I prefer to shoot the breeze with this lively conversationalist who is endlessly riveting and who has obvi great taste in hats. Painting this kind of fence seems undeniably worth the investment of my time and effort. 
6/Finally, this from @mcuban makes more sense from a biz point of view, since it makes clear the cost and benefit. Kind of like Cameo, etc: theverge.com/2021/2/8/22272…
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