NYC Venture Capitalist Fred Wilson Is Rich and Grumpy

Re:NYC Venture Capitalist Fred Wilson Is Rich and Grumpy by pg on Monday April 18, 2011 @05:22PM (#2460745)

Fred's not actually grumpy. The reporter just put that in the title to get back at Fred for refusing to talk to him.

And as for that bit at the end about NYC not having a Facebook or Zynga, what does he think Fred could be doing that he isn't? That was a pretty low blow, considering Fred is probably the biggest regional booster of all VCs.

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Re:NYC Venture Capitalist Fred Wilson Is Rich and Grumpy by acangiano on Monday April 18, 2011 @06:01PM (#2460911)

The idea that NYC isn't Silicon Valley because one of the guys who is doing the most for the NYC startup scene isn't doing enough is, quite frankly, moronic and not even worth discussing.

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Re:NYC Venture Capitalist Fred Wilson Is Rich and Grumpy by sardonicbryan on Monday April 18, 2011 @09:37PM (#2461384)

This is a classic sports writing trope as well -- blaming a team's best player when the team doesn't succeed, as opposed to blaming all the chumps around him who were the real cause of the team's failure. See Alex Rodriguez and the Texas Rangers, Lebron James and the Cleveland Cavs, Landon Donovan and the US Soccer team, Peyton Manning and the early 2000s Colts, etc.

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Re:NYC Venture Capitalist Fred Wilson Is Rich and Grumpy by bijansabet on Tuesday April 19, 2011 @10:42PM (#2465052)

pg is exactly right. couldn't agree more.

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