One of these guys, after failing to become a millionaire, joined a writers group that I had somehow come to lead after all the founders disappeared. He wrote a memoir of how he went from being a Harvard frat kid most interested in getting ripped lats to becoming a passionate creative tech weirdo. Naturally it all flowed through riding a bike. Interesting cat!
https://www.bizbash.com/event-tech/industry-innovators-2022-paul-freedman
It's worse than I thought
@anildash : "I talk to young founders these days and for them, there’s no other world than the Trump world. I ask them what inspired them to go into tech and they say they read Marc Andreessen’s manifesto, they read Peter Thiel’s books, and I think, “Oh, your brain’s cooked.” They come in pre-pickled. But everyone else who could have told an alternate narrative has been hounded out of the industry."
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God for those of us who grew up in Silicon Valley, this is like being invested with pod people. I would like to imagine a fantasy world where normal people who like Engineering learn about it and do stuff outside of the reach of these animals.
