Balaji is eager to take credit for his company's recent success and says the company's initial failures happened before he took over. Am I the only reporter who remembers Balaji as being the chairman -- and very much in charge -- of those two earlier failures?https://twitter.com/balajis/status/985914703242084352 …
hey @nathanielpopper as an early investor, this isn't true. he wasn't operationally involved in the first 2 years.
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maybe it all comes down to the definition of "operationally involved" but the attached post -- and other communications from the time -- certainly suggested that he was actively involved with the bitcoin mining and the bitcoin toasterhttps://a16z.com/2015/03/11/21/
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And also weren’t the earlier failures strategic ones rather than operational? For example, they released a mining computer that was already obsoleted by ASICs the moment it hit the market.
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He was putting out charts comparing 21 growth to google... please..
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