Eh. As much as I find Giles Bowkett to be insightful and amusing, he's also overboard. Embodies unpleasant class politics? I wouldn't go so far.
But it is essentially a meat market. And just like the biggest meat market in the US, Los Angeles, the meat's synthetic.
"In fact Yunus' story is actually actively counter-productive to the interests of systems like the venture capital system, since that is a system which maintains class division around concentrations of wealth, and this story demonstrates that eroding or circumventing those systems can be more profitable than co-operating with them.
The real reason you won't find this stuff on TechCrunch is because TechCrunch is about power, not money; because this story is too capitalist for the world of venture capital; and because TechCrunch embodies extremely unpleasant class politics." -- http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2008/05/never-hate-only-eve...