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May 19, 2022Liked by James Hennessy

Marc Andreessen follows me on Twitter for some reason, but I'm getting the impression that I can't just slide into his DMs and hit him up for some cash?

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Great piece James. I always find it so weird that the VCs that fund tech startups have such disdain for the people who end up working at those companies.

By definition, the companies that they have a large hand in building produce members of the "laptop class" but then they turn around and criticise them for working cushy remote jobs at the same companies?

Against my better judgement, I routinely hate listen to the "ALL IN" tech podcast where 4 VCs weigh in on world events* and they can't seem to go 2 weeks without a segment that talks about a strawman tech employee who has had it too easy for too long, but now needs to get ready because a storm is coming that is going to blow away his petty vogue woke politics. It never seems to occur to them that these are exactly the kinds of jobs that their tech companies create.

*You may have heard of this podcast from an incident earlier in the year where Chamath Palihapitiya went on a rant that included him stating that the plight of the Uyghur people was "below my line"

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