The prime examples of this are Musk and Paul Graham.
The entire Silicon Valley has the shoebutton complex. They think that because they’ve made money in IT and computer science, todays foremost profit centers, it qualifies them to talk about biotech, manufacturing, or energy. It doesn’t and their takes are often terrible.
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To me the prime examples are Y Combinator and Theranos. PG is smart and, look, you can call Elon a scammer and the monorail guy from the simpsons but he did make reusable rockets happen. He has his flaws but he knows his shit. He’s also not in Silicon Valley.
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just like our politicians, mostly lawyers background, pretend to know economics, epidemiologism, IT and even medicine.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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