"The time has come to stand up for Little Tech" —venture capital firm with $42 billion in assets under management
this post was submitted on 14 Jul 2024
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tbf how much of that is real money and how much of that is overhyped stock, cookie cutter shitcoins, and other SV innovation in financial crimes
Yeah, my first thought was "$42 billion" in "assets" under "management."
On the other hand, by the time you're spelling billion with a "B" any appreciable fraction of that is still going to be enough money to functionally remove you from the normal economy. Too big to fail in that even if all the bullshit collapses they'd still probably have more money than God.
if you can cut it down by 4 orders of magnitude, maybe less depending on his spending rate, he'll spend all of it before he dies, all on his own (i vaguely remember that people in the west spend something like $4M over their entire lives)
new industries, such as Blockchain.
While resisting the morbid curiosity that might otherwise tempt me to follow the link, I paused to consider that one phrase, with the capital B and all. How did it come to this? What is it about this cumbersome and inefficient type of database that makes people go crazy for it? Or could they have just as easily picked some other algorithm to glorify? It would be quite a world if every data structure we invented got people believing that there's going to be a whole new industry devoted to it. Yeah, I'm working on a new project in the Hash Table industry. We're going to combine it with Sorting Algorithm technology to deliver revolutionary new techniques for optimizing pizza delivery. I would like a hundred million dollars please.
Bitcoin enables the fantasy of becoming a rent-seeking plutocrat that cannot have their wealth seized by a government nor a popular uprising.
just one more manifesto bro, just one more and we'll get an unregulated free market, just one more bro
Regulatory agencies have been green lit to use brute force investigations, prosecutions, intimidation, and threats to hobble new industries, such as Blockchain.
Wow, Andreesen Horowitz, guy who wouldn't acknowledge government repression if a working class person was being bludgeoned with police batons in front of his eyes, thinks he was persecuted for Blockchain.
Makes it sound as if The Gobment sent SWAT teams to sieze the Means of Tax Deduction out of SBFs bloodied hands and then set fire to his luxurious Bahama mansion, whereas the reality is that they... Mostly looked at all the fraud for years until they had enough pages of stern words to warrant an indictment after it all collapsed to shit and people couldn't get their money back.
This guy would've been on Madoff's side, crying persecution on his arrest, wouldn't he?
Another manifesto? Considering the high percentage of people who first write a manifesto and then do a terrorism/shooting I'm now scared.
considering that his previous manifesto was titled "It's Time To Build" and he did not, in fact, built anything, makes me think that the only thing he can fill a pipe bomb with is hot air
They are VC's they would never dirty their hands building something themselves. They would invest into an enterprising startup (making pipebombs with a LLM) they inspired.
The only people really at risk is the people who end up holding the bags.
Pipe-bomb-as-a-service (PBaaS)
Just reminds me of this:
Like, if the current world isn't giving you sufficient free reign to change the world with your money then the problem isn't that you need more freedom the problem is that you keep demanding even more power.
@self My eyes started to warp inside out at "hobble new industries, such as Blockchain.".
Holy Hamburger, what a big smelly lie!
This farkchain is a disaster to humanity, to environment, and even to fantasy of avoid banks and state taxation by making own payments processing space!
Quickly this "small" industry require own expensive equipment, wasting electricity like crazy to poop hash sums for 1 nanosecond faster than other billionaire's "mining farm" in other datacenter....
I nearly downvoted this post on reflex