"This made him a 23-year-old accredited investor, one of the most dangerous things in the world. Suddenly becoming more dangerous than a raptor, Jules & Vincent from Pulp Fiction, and Predator (combined) he set off to invest some of this capital in startups led by founders just like him (long on ideas, short on experience, but full of energy). Besides, he wanted to live vicariously through these of startup founders — only sleep better."

What a phenomenal paragraph.

Thanks. Admittedly, I reused this from a talk I gave at Angel Bootcamp in Boston. http://alexisohanian.com/video-of-my-talk-at-angel-boot-camp...

"Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy." is this a mistranslation? It doesn't appear to make any sense. Should it be "experience praises most happily the one who made the most people happy"? Where did Marx write this and was it in English or German?

Yarg, I clearly don't have good version control. That's a wicked old (crappy) translation.

"History calls those men the greatest who have ennobled themselves by working for the common good; experience acclaims as happiest the man who has made the greatest number of people happy."

Fixing! (Thanks)

http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1837-pre/marx/183...

This is Alexis's: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=kn0thing

I LOL'ed when I read the footer a while back: "Das Kapital Capital, LLC provides investment, advising, and Quake II railgun tutorials to startups".

Circle strife FTW.

Circle strafing has more use with rapid fire weapons than it does with the relatively slow firing rail gun.

The secret is in the bunnyhopping ;)

I'm pretty sure he's said that Das Kapital is on hold because he's too busy with YC, Hipmunk, Breadpig, and life.

Yeah, I really need one of those timemachines -- I bet there are more than a few of you on HN who are working on this technology for yourselves, too ;)

The commercialization of Marxism - never thought I'd see that.

We have the killer Che Guevara bopping around as a pop culture icon. Anything can happen.

Unlike most the kids wearing those Che shirts, I'm aware of the irony, honest. It makes my trips to the bank a lot of fun, though. "My company's name? Oh, Das Kapital Capital." (with accent on Das Kapital, of course)

If anything, an investment firm named after Marx's magnum opus is more ironic than a communist murderer's face on a t-shirt. At least Marx never directly killed anybody so it is in somewhat better taste than the infamous t-shirt (though his ideology led to the murder of nearly a hundred million).

How to apply?

now that's some détournement