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Re:Alphabet’s Chief Legal Officer Stepping Down Amid Investi... by pinewurst on Friday January 10, 2020 @05:24PM (#22016258)
This is the same Ben Horowitz who defended illegal option price fixing and other ethically dubious behavior in his last book. I'll probably get penalized for this, but achieving success is not equivalent to being a role model.
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Re:Alphabet’s Chief Legal Officer Stepping Down Amid Investi... by loganfrederick on Friday January 10, 2020 @05:51PM (#22016492)
In Horowitz's defense (on the options pricing matter, hopefully not taking this thread too far off course), I thought he had explained his position on options pricing reasonably: https://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/02/06/how-ben-horowitz-avo...
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Re:Alphabet’s Chief Legal Officer Stepping Down Amid Investi... by icelancer on Friday January 10, 2020 @11:02PM (#22018033)
>> defended illegal option price fixing

That's literally the opposite of what he did in the book, and in subsequent interviews.

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