Google Ventures Full General Partner: Increasingly, It Feels Similar People Inwards Our Industry, The Tech Industry, Are Losing Impact Alongside Reality.

From M.G.  Siegler at 500ish Words*:

Arrogance Peaks inwards Silicon Valley
As nosotros skid out of behavior upon with reality…

There’s something that has been inwards the dorsum of my require heed for some fourth dimension now. And spell it pre-dates the Facebook fiasco, that province of affairs surely brings it to the forefront. Increasingly, it feels similar people inwards our industry, the tech industry, are losing behavior upon amongst reality.

You tin run into it inwards the tweets. You tin hear it at tech conferences. Hell, you lot tin hear it at most cafes inwards San Francisco on whatsoever given day. People — really smart people — saying some of the most vacuous things. Words that if they were able to conduct keep a pace exterior of their ain heads as well as hear, they’d live on embarrassed by.

Or, at least, these are stances, thoughts, as well as ideas that these people should be embarrassed by. But they’re clearly non because they snuff it on proverb them.

This isn’t alone virtually Facebook — far from it. That’s only the most high profile as well as timely representative of a companionship suffering from some of this. And inwards that case, it’s actually to a greater extent than inwards their responses to the Cambridge Analytica situation, rather than the province of affairs itself (which is some other matter, though undoubtedly related). They don’t know the correct things to tell because they don’t know what to say, period. Because they’ve slipped out of touch....MORE

*M.G. Siegler General Partner @ GV (née Google Ventures). In past times lives I wrote at TechCrunch, VentureBeat, as well as ParisLemon. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 homo of few words. Except when writing

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