Explain Andreessen To Me

[Anonymous]

Check out his interview with Rogan where he goes into more detail.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have been wondering this myself. What are these secret off limit discussions? Iq realism? Genetic realism? Crime stats realism? Beliefs in the superiority of one culture or religion (altho he’s atheist so that can’t be the case for him)?

As someone who works in private equity, I will say that there’s generally a pervasive PE/VC view that having to hire or make pipeline programs for certain URM generally does not get you the best people.

There are certain racial stereotypes that these guys think are accurate:
South Asians and certain Asians are the best engineers and coders. You want them bringing their people to your organization, if you are a founder.
White guys who played lacrosse and went to Stanford or Harvard can often talk to talk and walk the walk that helps get your company another funding round. You’re going to want those guys in the room too.

There are certain things that are not politically correct to say, but they’re who you want. Other pipelining /URM programs rarely have the same benefits or results. Hard to find URM unicorns. And so, DEI has been an abject failure in SV’s mind and breeds mediocrity. And the fact that Democrats embraced DEI, showed how disconnected they are from business.

In this view, Democrats don’t understand or even want real innovation. They like the status quo. SV is anti-status quo across the board. Dems wanted to control AI with government regulatory capture, blocking free markets. This was a big problem and why SV ran into Trump’s arms.

SV believes the Biden administration was trying to destroy the future of BigTech. Their biggest concern is that the modern Dem party is anti-capitalist. Anti-founder - they don’t even want founders innovating, building, making.

They believe that there was a giant shift and something happened to the Democratic Party after Obama? Hijacked by socialists after Black Lives Matter in that the issues Dems care about will never be conducive to American business. And because of that they lost support of almost almost everyone who counts in Silicon Valley. It will be hard to win back.

That’s it. In a nutshell.

And so many of us can see through this BS screed. Whiny babies who expect us to trust that they will innovate without hurting anyone. Well FU. We don't trust them. We have absolutely no reason to. Most are narcissistic and power hungry. Real innovation my butt. More like let me do what I want without thought for the consequences other than lining my own pocketbook.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have been wondering this myself. What are these secret off limit discussions? Iq realism? Genetic realism? Crime stats realism? Beliefs in the superiority of one culture or religion (altho he’s atheist so that can’t be the case for him)?

As someone who works in private equity, I will say that there’s generally a pervasive PE/VC view that having to hire or make pipeline programs for certain URM generally does not get you the best people.

There are certain racial stereotypes that these guys think are accurate:
South Asians and certain Asians are the best engineers and coders. You want them bringing their people to your organization, if you are a founder.
White guys who played lacrosse and went to Stanford or Harvard can often talk to talk and walk the walk that helps get your company another funding round. You’re going to want those guys in the room too.

There are certain things that are not politically correct to say, but they’re who you want. Other pipelining /URM programs rarely have the same benefits or results. Hard to find URM unicorns. And so, DEI has been an abject failure in SV’s mind and breeds mediocrity. And the fact that Democrats embraced DEI, showed how disconnected they are from business.

In this view, Democrats don’t understand or even want real innovation. They like the status quo. SV is anti-status quo across the board. Dems wanted to control AI with government regulatory capture, blocking free markets. This was a big problem and why SV ran into Trump’s arms.

SV believes the Biden administration was trying to destroy the future of BigTech. Their biggest concern is that the modern Dem party is anti-capitalist. Anti-founder - they don’t even want founders innovating, building, making.

They believe that there was a giant shift and something happened to the Democratic Party after Obama? Hijacked by socialists after Black Lives Matter in that the issues Dems care about will never be conducive to American business. And because of that they lost support of almost almost everyone who counts in Silicon Valley. It will be hard to win back.

That’s it. In a nutshell.

And so many of us can see through this BS screed. Whiny babies who expect us to trust that they will innovate without hurting anyone. Well FU. We don't trust them. We have absolutely no reason to. Most are narcissistic and power hungry. Real innovation my butt. More like let me do what I want without thought for the consequences other than linking my own pocketbook.

Have you run it founded a tech company?
It’s not off-base.

And I didn’t even vote for trump.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have been wondering this myself. What are these secret off limit discussions? Iq realism? Genetic realism? Crime stats realism? Beliefs in the superiority of one culture or religion (altho he’s atheist so that can’t be the case for him)?

As someone who works in private equity, I will say that there’s generally a pervasive PE/VC view that having to hire or make pipeline programs for certain URM generally does not get you the best people.

There are certain racial stereotypes that these guys think are accurate:
South Asians and certain Asians are the best engineers and coders. You want them bringing their people to your organization, if you are a founder.
White guys who played lacrosse and went to Stanford or Harvard can often talk to talk and walk the walk that helps get your company another funding round. You’re going to want those guys in the room too.

There are certain things that are not politically correct to say, but they’re who you want. Other pipelining /URM programs rarely have the same benefits or results. Hard to find URM unicorns. And so, DEI has been an abject failure in SV’s mind and breeds mediocrity. And the fact that Democrats embraced DEI, showed how disconnected they are from business.

In this view, Democrats don’t understand or even want real innovation. They like the status quo. SV is anti-status quo across the board. Dems wanted to control AI with government regulatory capture, blocking free markets. This was a big problem and why SV ran into Trump’s arms.

SV believes the Biden administration was trying to destroy the future of BigTech. Their biggest concern is that the modern Dem party is anti-capitalist. Anti-founder - they don’t even want founders innovating, building, making.

They believe that there was a giant shift and something happened to the Democratic Party after Obama? Hijacked by socialists after Black Lives Matter in that the issues Dems care about will never be conducive to American business. And because of that they lost support of almost almost everyone who counts in Silicon Valley. It will be hard to win back.

That’s it. In a nutshell.

Spot on.

Also, to add to this, they’ve done a complete reverse on considering Democrats the party of education, and this is a group that values rigorous education.

Very good point on education. The issue with education is real, and also pervasive across the country. Especially in democratic held cities where public schools are not focused on STEM in a way that Silicon Valley believes they should be. Low caliber teachers, low caliber /mediocre curriculum is not advancing their goals.

They want frank conversations on education - maybe maybe certain kids do deserve better schools. It gets very heated and crosses over into the lines about the things you cannot say. If certain families don’t have a baseline where education is a priority in a stable 2-parent household, there’s no way they are going to be focused on python at age eight. It’s just a reality.

As you can see so many of the West Coast Silicon Valley issues, go back to very conservative social issues too. And at the end of the day, Silicon Valley believes that the Democratic Party is a wasteland, not focused on educating the top, but only educating the bottom. Their companies are filled with people from the top of the class.

[Anonymous]

so they run to the party that wants to teach science from the bible??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:so they run to the party that wants to teach science from the bible??

They run from the party that eliminates advanced education in the name of equity.

Truthfully, it’s a small minority of people in the Republican Party who want to teach creationist theory instead of evolution, and even those people want to do it in their own private schools, not public ones.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:so they run to the party that wants to teach science from the bible??

They run to the party that is pushing bible-based education for the masses.

They don't care about those kids. You want to teach the whole of the Mississippi youth that we evolved from Adam and Eve? No problem. Just keep your regulatory hands off my AI patent.

It's not that they want to push a certain future for most American kids. They simply don't care what happens to most of them. This is where the "who deserves" a better education comes into play.

What's funny is that every single one of these ideas is distilled down to money. Every single one. You cannot unite a country, nor govern, and ignore people's needs or beliefs. Maybe the Dems focused solely on that to their detriment, but an entire nation based on who's getting richer will be miserable, and will also fail.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have been wondering this myself. What are these secret off limit discussions? Iq realism? Genetic realism? Crime stats realism? Beliefs in the superiority of one culture or religion (altho he’s atheist so that can’t be the case for him)?

As someone who works in private equity, I will say that there’s generally a pervasive PE/VC view that having to hire or make pipeline programs for certain URM generally does not get you the best people.

There are certain racial stereotypes that these guys think are accurate:
South Asians and certain Asians are the best engineers and coders. You want them bringing their people to your organization, if you are a founder.
White guys who played lacrosse and went to Stanford or Harvard can often talk to talk and walk the walk that helps get your company another funding round. You’re going to want those guys in the room too.

There are certain things that are not politically correct to say, but they’re who you want. Other pipelining /URM programs rarely have the same benefits or results. Hard to find URM unicorns. And so, DEI has been an abject failure in SV’s mind and breeds mediocrity. And the fact that Democrats embraced DEI, showed how disconnected they are from business.

In this view, Democrats don’t understand or even want real innovation. They like the status quo. SV is anti-status quo across the board. Dems wanted to control AI with government regulatory capture, blocking free markets. This was a big problem and why SV ran into Trump’s arms.

SV believes the Biden administration was trying to destroy the future of BigTech. Their biggest concern is that the modern Dem party is anti-capitalist. Anti-founder - they don’t even want founders innovating, building, making.

They believe that there was a giant shift and something happened to the Democratic Party after Obama? Hijacked by socialists after Black Lives Matter in that the issues Dems care about will never be conducive to American business. And because of that they lost support of almost almost everyone who counts in Silicon Valley. It will be hard to win back.

That’s it. In a nutshell.

Ah I see the VC and investors are racist/classist (i mean the white lacrosse players do what exactly?), and thus those are the ones that get funding.

And funding isn’t as regimented as employment, so it gets a pass in most cases, but incentivizes companies to give DEI side eye.

[Anonymous]

Silicon Valley founders have always been Ayn Rand loving, LOTR cosplaying Libertarians, yet somehow missed the central thesis of LOTR that power is corrupting — meanwhile they consolidate power endlessly in every domain they can (FB share structure for example)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have been wondering this myself. What are these secret off limit discussions? Iq realism? Genetic realism? Crime stats realism? Beliefs in the superiority of one culture or religion (altho he’s atheist so that can’t be the case for him)?

As someone who works in private equity, I will say that there’s generally a pervasive PE/VC view that having to hire or make pipeline programs for certain URM generally does not get you the best people.

There are certain racial stereotypes that these guys think are accurate:
South Asians and certain Asians are the best engineers and coders. You want them bringing their people to your organization, if you are a founder.
White guys who played lacrosse and went to Stanford or Harvard can often talk to talk and walk the walk that helps get your company another funding round. You’re going to want those guys in the room too.

There are certain things that are not politically correct to say, but they’re who you want. Other pipelining /URM programs rarely have the same benefits or results. Hard to find URM unicorns. And so, DEI has been an abject failure in SV’s mind and breeds mediocrity. And the fact that Democrats embraced DEI, showed how disconnected they are from business.

In this view, Democrats don’t understand or even want real innovation. They like the status quo. SV is anti-status quo across the board. Dems wanted to control AI with government regulatory capture, blocking free markets. This was a big problem and why SV ran into Trump’s arms.

SV believes the Biden administration was trying to destroy the future of BigTech. Their biggest concern is that the modern Dem party is anti-capitalist. Anti-founder - they don’t even want founders innovating, building, making.

They believe that there was a giant shift and something happened to the Democratic Party after Obama? Hijacked by socialists after Black Lives Matter in that the issues Dems care about will never be conducive to American business. And because of that they lost support of almost almost everyone who counts in Silicon Valley. It will be hard to win back.

That’s it. In a nutshell.

Spot on.

Also, to add to this, they’ve done a complete reverse on considering Democrats the party of education, and this is a group that values rigorous education.

Very good point on education. The issue with education is real, and also pervasive across the country. Especially in democratic held cities where public schools are not focused on STEM in a way that Silicon Valley believes they should be. Low caliber teachers, low caliber /mediocre curriculum is not advancing their goals.

They want frank conversations on education - maybe maybe certain kids do deserve better schools. It gets very heated and crosses over into the lines about the things you cannot say. If certain families don’t have a baseline where education is a priority in a stable 2-parent household, there’s no way they are going to be focused on python at age eight. It’s just a reality.

As you can see so many of the West Coast Silicon Valley issues, go back to very conservative social issues too. And at the end of the day, Silicon Valley believes that the Democratic Party is a wasteland, not focused on educating the top, but only educating the bottom. Their companies are filled with people from the top of the class.

Not top of the class, the top class.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:so they run to the party that wants to teach science from the bible??

What were the other real options? Come people. Wake up. Let's take back the democratic party!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Check out his interview with Rogan where he goes into more detail.

I can't because I cancelled him. Is their a democrat friendly version?

[Anonymous]

These views are found everywhere in business. Surprised that people don't know this.
Especially the education stuff.
The "diversity pipeline" programs are a JOKE at biglaw and large bulge bracket banks. Its like a wink wink, yeah we have to do this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:so they run to the party that wants to teach science from the bible??

They run to the party that is pushing bible-based education for the masses.

They don't care about those kids. You want to teach the whole of the Mississippi youth that we evolved from Adam and Eve? No problem. Just keep your regulatory hands off my AI patent.

It's not that they want to push a certain future for most American kids. They simply don't care what happens to most of them. This is where the "who deserves" a better education comes into play.

What's funny is that every single one of these ideas is distilled down to money. Every single one. You cannot unite a country, nor govern, and ignore people's needs or beliefs. Maybe the Dems focused solely on that to their detriment, but an entire nation based on who's getting richer will be miserable, and will also fail.

Maybe they are just realistic.
It's true our public education K-12 system is a failure. No one disputes that.
Maybe not every kid should go to college. Maybe 50% should go to trade schools. If we know that early enough, maybe we can funnel different resources their way.
These are hard deep conversations that the Democratic Party should have had a decade ago.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have been wondering this myself. What are these secret off limit discussions? Iq realism? Genetic realism? Crime stats realism? Beliefs in the superiority of one culture or religion (altho he’s atheist so that can’t be the case for him)?

As someone who works in private equity, I will say that there’s generally a pervasive PE/VC view that having to hire or make pipeline programs for certain URM generally does not get you the best people.

There are certain racial stereotypes that these guys think are accurate:
South Asians and certain Asians are the best engineers and coders. You want them bringing their people to your organization, if you are a founder.
White guys who played lacrosse and went to Stanford or Harvard can often talk to talk and walk the walk that helps get your company another funding round. You’re going to want those guys in the room too.

There are certain things that are not politically correct to say, but they’re who you want. Other pipelining /URM programs rarely have the same benefits or results. Hard to find URM unicorns. And so, DEI has been an abject failure in SV’s mind and breeds mediocrity. And the fact that Democrats embraced DEI, showed how disconnected they are from business.

In this view, Democrats don’t understand or even want real innovation. They like the status quo. SV is anti-status quo across the board. Dems wanted to control AI with government regulatory capture, blocking free markets. This was a big problem and why SV ran into Trump’s arms.

SV believes the Biden administration was trying to destroy the future of BigTech. Their biggest concern is that the modern Dem party is anti-capitalist. Anti-founder - they don’t even want founders innovating, building, making.

They believe that there was a giant shift and something happened to the Democratic Party after Obama? Hijacked by socialists after Black Lives Matter in that the issues Dems care about will never be conducive to American business. And because of that they lost support of almost almost everyone who counts in Silicon Valley. It will be hard to win back.

That’s it. In a nutshell.

I’m on an AI team for an agency. We are not dragging our feet on innovation. But we just cannot put AI out there without consideration of the data. We have regulatory obligations, which don’t exist in private industry. Private industry DGAF about leaking PII or other controlled data but we do because Congress passed laws about it.