Blah blah blah blah, blah blah. (Welcome to my world for the last 25 years everyone — now you don’t have to wonder why I sometimes get testy.)
https://twitter.com/davidsacks/status/1589470097659547648
Let me say that tech has many thoughtful and insightful people I often have debated and disagreed with over the years. Then there is a class of second and third tier people who suck up to the bigs, riding in the wake and at some point thinking they are as important. They are not.
Many moguls have these remora fish swimming about them, licking them up and down, and thinking they matter. Most smart leaders I know avoid such smarmy yes men. But some let these unctuous enablers remain and everyone quietly snickers at them. You should see my texts I get.
One quality they always have to feign an image as a man of the people and to slag the elite, while they lives of obscene comfort and luxury with multimillion-dollar parties, private jets and almost no connection to the life most people lead. They are the elite in every metric.
Most of all, they are profoundly ignorant about things they nonetheless spout off on, frequently wrong but never ever in doubt. They are the worst part of tech, which is too bad since there are so many amazing people in tech. This type of hangers-on is not one of them.
The only comfort is that these noisical toadies to the big dogs will be forgotten in time, since they were without true contributions, yammering on and making forgettable products. The past is littered with such ephemeral men whose names will soon escape us.
Not soon enough tho.
Not soon enough tho.
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