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Cheez Whiz's avatar

Really liked the article. Guys like Andreesen come across as nothing so much as founding engineers who cannot hand over their company to more experienced leadership that know how to build a sucessful startup into a global business. I think the reason "move fast and break things" resonates still is the implicit assumption that the cleanup of those broken things is at most a trivial exercize someone else can deal with. Very startup mentality, which is hard to maintain when you're a global presence being held responsible for those broken things by governments. No wonder they dream of bypassing those governments completely.

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Jeff's avatar

“If Silicon Valley thinkers are to take their political commitments to liberty and technological progress seriously,…”

Do you genuinely believe they have such things? Seems to me their commitment is to maintaining and extending a social order that has them at the top.

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