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I work for the Internet, at @stripe, mostly on accelerating startups. Opinions here are my own.

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    1. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 13 Oct 2017
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      You know how Goldman Sachs, specifically among all investment banks, has negative emotional valence for people? That interests me.

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    2. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 13 Oct 2017
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      On the one hand, it's very common among engineers, particularly -- and I say this from love -- ones who don't know what GS actually does.

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    3. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 13 Oct 2017
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      "Go up to a whiteboard and diagram who pays who for what for any 1 of GS' lines of business" is a FizzBuzz test that they'd fail.

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      Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 13 Oct 2017
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      Is it *just* their name? Is it their outsized reputation for making money in a field where making money is common (except when you blow up)?

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        2. Saku Panditharatne‏ @asteroid_saku 13 Oct 2017
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          You know, it might be weird, lingering, 1920s anti-semitism...

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        3. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 13 Oct 2017
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          This is the most parsimonious explanation for me but it feels a little dissatisfying, not least because Jewish engineers say the same thing.

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        2. garamon fan account‏ @zzzbra 13 Oct 2017
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          A “friend of mine” is a GS engineer who struggles with this every time they tell someone new where they work, prefacing it endlessly ...

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        3. garamon fan account‏ @zzzbra 13 Oct 2017
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          ... with all manner of excuses and justifications. But when asked exactly why he’s ashamed of working there by another friend, he ...

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        2. Dan Luchi‏ @Looukey 13 Oct 2017
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          As an engineer who would probably fail that test: its the sense that they use their influence to put their thumb on the scale.

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        3. Dan Luchi‏ @Looukey 13 Oct 2017
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          More specifically related to the 2008 financial crisis and number of former Goldman Sachs personnel in the Fed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldman_Sachs#Personnel_.22revolving-door.22_with_US_government …

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        1. Jeremy Green‏ @jagthedrummer 13 Oct 2017
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          Is it that Hillary Clinton once gave a speech at once of their event? (Only half snark.)

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        1. Nathan Long‏ @sleeplessgeek 13 Oct 2017
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          Speaking personally, I don't think I can name any others. They were in the news as bad? And their name sounds like "gold in sacks?" IDK.

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        1. Sebastian Gutierrez‏ @seb_g 13 Oct 2017
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          They get trotted out in rolling stone as a vampire squid as the epitome of evil in I banking anytime anything in Wall Street happens

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        1. garamon fan account‏ @zzzbra 13 Oct 2017
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          I think that the main thing folks fault them for is that their business is primarily trading rather than lending.

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