Andreessen Horowitz Tech Site Future.com Shuts Down, Staff Leave

Re:Andreessen Horowitz Tech Site Future.com Shuts Down, Staf... by ixtli on Friday December 02, 2022 @11:42AM (#33832848)

i am in my 30s now and in my 20s they were super nice to me. its just that in retrospect i see how that was a tactic to exploit me. and to be very clear i benefited from my relationships with them quite a bit! but a spade is a spade and luck had a lot to do with my exits. if i hadn't been so lucky they would have just exploited me without there being ends to justify the means

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Re:Andreessen Horowitz Tech Site Future.com Shuts Down, Staf... by devmunchies on Friday December 02, 2022 @12:37PM (#33833763)

> they were super nice to me. its just that in retrospect i see how that was a tactic to exploit me

Omg. Then what isn’t exploitative?! There’s always a bit of a selfish motive in developing partnerships or friendships even.

This is next level victimization.

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Re:Andreessen Horowitz Tech Site Future.com Shuts Down, Staf... by yamtaddle on Friday December 02, 2022 @01:03PM (#33834186)

In this thread: HN fails to understand flattery, a behavior that features heavily in popular culture with a clear record in literature dating back 3,000+ years, and a heavily-covered topic in early childhood education since time immemorial.

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Re:Andreessen Horowitz Tech Site Future.com Shuts Down, Staf... by BobbyJo on Friday December 02, 2022 @01:52PM (#33834992)

What part of flattery did they fail to understand?

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Re:Andreessen Horowitz Tech Site Future.com Shuts Down, Staf... by tough on Friday December 02, 2022 @11:59AM (#33833127)

Thanks for your reflections, certainly it's important to have in mind that VC's are innit for the money, which makes the world spin

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Re:Andreessen Horowitz Tech Site Future.com Shuts Down, Staf... by BobbyJo on Friday December 02, 2022 @01:43PM (#33834842)

Also, it's survivorship bias, to a degree. Being nice is just as much tool as being smart, and you can wield it with intent that is just as malicious. Truly successful people have to wield many tools successfully, it's only natural that one of the easiest to master is commonly used.

You never know what people's intent is, and you should assume the best until proven otherwise, but like you say, a spade is a spade, and being nice is useful to the people being nice.

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