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Re:Tim Cook, the interview: Running Apple ‘is sort of a lone... by krisdol on Sunday August 14, 2016 @05:22PM (#12287415)
> and partly because billionaires get less than zero sympathy if they talk about having difficult lives

That quote from the essay reminds me of a Silicon Valley scene [1] where the CEO of the pseudo-Google company in the show gets vilified (rightfully so in the show) for complaining about how hard billionaires have it in this country.

I bet the creator's read PG's essay and were inspired by it.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5zQpN28xa4

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Re:Tim Cook, the interview: Running Apple ‘is sort of a lone... by rfrank on Sunday August 14, 2016 @05:57PM (#12287537)
That scene was inspired by Thomas Perkins' letter to WSJ.

http://www.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230454950457...

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Re:Tim Cook, the interview: Running Apple ‘is sort of a lone... by valarauca1 on Sunday August 14, 2016 @06:59PM (#12287706)
Seeing as former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo joined the show as a writer I think this isn't a huge leap.
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Re:Tim Cook, the interview: Running Apple ‘is sort of a lone... by rhizome on Sunday August 14, 2016 @08:26PM (#12287951)
I don't think he has a writer credit, does he? I thought he was under "script consultant" like Matt Cutts and other industry peeps, who I imagine get calls and say "yeah do that," or "you should include X."
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Re:Tim Cook, the interview: Running Apple ‘is sort of a lone... by hyperbovine on Monday August 15, 2016 @03:48AM (#12289201)
No, he is much more involved than that.

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/how-silicon-va...

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Re:Tim Cook, the interview: Running Apple ‘is sort of a lone... by rhizome on Monday August 15, 2016 @05:04PM (#12293435)
I dunno, from what's described it sounds like his input was on par with Andreesen's, except he wanted to be more involved. He's not mentioned after the first third of the article.
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Re:Tim Cook, the interview: Running Apple ‘is sort of a lone... by tdaltonc on Sunday August 14, 2016 @05:59PM (#12287546)
Or they read the news.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-01-26/kleiner-p...

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Re:Tim Cook, the interview: Running Apple ‘is sort of a lone... by bitmapbrother on Sunday August 14, 2016 @10:48PM (#12288356)
>pseudo-Google company

I don't get why people think Hooli is some pseudo-Google company. In the Silicon Valley universe Google clearly exists. Eric Schmidt was in their series premiere and the show's opening intro animation clearly shows Google and YouTube.

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Re:Tim Cook, the interview: Running Apple ‘is sort of a lone... by tekklloneer on Sunday August 14, 2016 @11:46PM (#12288519)
It's because they probably can't use Google but they wanted a Google. It's a writing device to get around that inconvenient fact.
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Re:Tim Cook, the interview: Running Apple ‘is sort of a lone... by hyperbovine on Monday August 15, 2016 @03:50AM (#12289210)
It's a composite of recognizable bad habits of a bunch of well known companies, including Google.
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Re:Tim Cook, the interview: Running Apple ‘is sort of a lone... by noam87 on Monday August 15, 2016 @01:00AM (#12288758)
Hooli strikes me as a Google-sized Uber.
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Re:Tim Cook, the interview: Running Apple ‘is sort of a lone... by justicezyx on Sunday August 14, 2016 @05:56PM (#12287532)
I cannot believe that the privileged rich created such shows to disguise their unjustified fortune; and still intelligent people believe these superficial arguments.

billionaires == jews?

Can something be more wrong?

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Re:Tim Cook, the interview: Running Apple ‘is sort of a lone... by corysama on Sunday August 14, 2016 @06:58PM (#12287703)
It's not clear to me if you are aware that the video you are commenting on is from a comedy show satirizing Silicon Valley and it's billionaires...
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Re:Tim Cook, the interview: Running Apple ‘is sort of a lone... by mulcahey on Sunday August 14, 2016 @07:14PM (#12287754)
Gotta hand it to them for the realism though getting the actual code conference interviewers.
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