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A comment on Basecoin, aka the Basis Protocol. Parent comment

Re:Basecoin, aka the Basis Protocol by solean on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @05:18PM (#16871279)
It's pretty elitist to think that you can never accomplish anything worthwhile just because you were only a low level employee at Google, which by the way, is a position most engineers dream of.
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Re:Basecoin, aka the Basis Protocol by simias on Thursday April 19, 2018 @04:10AM (#16874179)
It's not how I interpreted the parent, rather it's more that this type of investment is probably based a lot on previous experience, not future potential. As such I think it's relevant. Maybe they're geniuses but they haven't proved that yet.
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