Comments on: Silicon Valley: Middle of the Bell Curve http://www.drama20show.com/2008/10/09/silicon-valley-middle-of-the-bell-curve/ Keeping Tech Sexy Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:05:44 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Broadband Internet for Cars a New Frontier for VC Investment? I Prefer Shittr : The Drama 2.0 Show http://www.drama20show.com/2008/10/09/silicon-valley-middle-of-the-bell-curve/comment-page-1/#comment-42310 Broadband Internet for Cars a New Frontier for VC Investment? I Prefer Shittr : The Drama 2.0 Show Sun, 09 Nov 2008 21:39:14 +0000 http://www.drama20show.com/2008/10/09/silicon-valley-middle-of-the-bell-curve/#comment-42310 [...] of my readers forwarded me a tweet from one of my favorite VCs, Fred Wilson: Thinking that the FCC’s ‘white space’ decision means broadband internet in cars [...] [...] of my readers forwarded me a tweet from one of my favorite VCs, Fred Wilson: Thinking that the FCC’s ‘white space’ decision means broadband internet in cars [...]

]]> By: Sam B http://www.drama20show.com/2008/10/09/silicon-valley-middle-of-the-bell-curve/comment-page-1/#comment-34683 Sam B Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:35:19 +0000 http://www.drama20show.com/2008/10/09/silicon-valley-middle-of-the-bell-curve/#comment-34683 Wilson and Scoble? Leaders? Wilson is at least readable, but this is the man who said "the future consists of everyone broadcasting all their thoughts and experiences to the Internet" (that's from memory but I'm not far off). Now that might have been hyperbole, but there's good hyperbole and bad hyperbole. Good hyperbole is when you express your liking of cats by saying "Sometimes I prefer the company of cats to humans". Bad hyperbole is when you say "I'm going to slaughter the entire human race so the world can be overrun with cats, starting with you". Wilson scares me. If he was leading me anywhere I would stay at least six feet back so I could see what I was getting into, and have a rope tied to my waist. As for Scoble, no comment required other than pointing to that post where he took pride in finding Twitter more important than his infant son. I don't go in for the media's theory that a man's private life is a 1:1 scale model of his leadership qualities, but really. I have no idea what sort of "leadership" Brazell thinks business executives are supposed to provide. Tell everyone that it's all OK? Anything they say on that will either be insipidly obvious ("the market moves in cycles") or totally wrong ("all we need is confidence to return and the bailour will provide that"). Set an example by building great businesses? Back to "what were they doing before" again. Maybe he means that executives should act not just in the interest of their business, but in that of the wider economy. As destructive and immoral as that is, the tone of some articles calling for more money to be invested in Silicon Valley companies not because they'll succeed, but because without it they'll fail, certainly comes across like that. Now that really would make this downturn permanent. Wilson and Scoble? Leaders? Wilson is at least readable, but this is the man who said “the future consists of everyone broadcasting all their thoughts and experiences to the Internet” (that’s from memory but I’m not far off). Now that might have been hyperbole, but there’s good hyperbole and bad hyperbole. Good hyperbole is when you express your liking of cats by saying “Sometimes I prefer the company of cats to humans”. Bad hyperbole is when you say “I’m going to slaughter the entire human race so the world can be overrun with cats, starting with you”. Wilson scares me. If he was leading me anywhere I would stay at least six feet back so I could see what I was getting into, and have a rope tied to my waist.

As for Scoble, no comment required other than pointing to that post where he took pride in finding Twitter more important than his infant son. I don’t go in for the media’s theory that a man’s private life is a 1:1 scale model of his leadership qualities, but really.

I have no idea what sort of “leadership” Brazell thinks business executives are supposed to provide. Tell everyone that it’s all OK? Anything they say on that will either be insipidly obvious (”the market moves in cycles”) or totally wrong (”all we need is confidence to return and the bailour will provide that”). Set an example by building great businesses? Back to “what were they doing before” again. Maybe he means that executives should act not just in the interest of their business, but in that of the wider economy. As destructive and immoral as that is, the tone of some articles calling for more money to be invested in Silicon Valley companies not because they’ll succeed, but because without it they’ll fail, certainly comes across like that. Now that really would make this downturn permanent.

]]> By: Bob Jones http://www.drama20show.com/2008/10/09/silicon-valley-middle-of-the-bell-curve/comment-page-1/#comment-34570 Bob Jones Thu, 09 Oct 2008 20:54:12 +0000 http://www.drama20show.com/2008/10/09/silicon-valley-middle-of-the-bell-curve/#comment-34570 uh oh - you included mark and mashable in the same post! don't you know that stock traders on the floor keep saying "if i just had a moment to twitter this and friend that guy on facebook, the market would rebound" ? uh oh – you included mark and mashable in the same post!

don’t you know that stock traders on the floor keep saying “if i just had a moment to twitter this and friend that guy on facebook, the market would rebound” ?

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