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This is my conversational account. For my work follow @ribbonfarm, @breaking_smart, @artofgig. Tweets are 90% vacuous views, apathetically held. Mediocritopian.

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    1. Toby‏ @tobyshorin Apr 22
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      Lmfao these jokers

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    2. Mat Dryhurst‏ @matdryhurst Apr 22
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      Replying to @tobyshorin @kneelingbus

      You call it pre-alpha, we call it “In Utero”. We are just different like that .

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    3. Drew Austin‏ @kneelingbus Apr 22
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      Currently fundraising for our Superfuzz Bigmuff round

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    4. Bryan‏ @bryanlehrer Apr 22
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      Replying to @kneelingbus @matdryhurst @tobyshorin

      10x entrepreneurs don't grind, they grunge

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    5. Toby‏ @tobyshorin Apr 22
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      didn’t think vc posturing could get any dumber but by trying to bring back “I knew about them before they were cool” they have truly outdone themselvespic.twitter.com/p0FFYp2604

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    6. Mat Dryhurst‏ @matdryhurst Apr 22
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      I think you touch on a real thing, I’ve seen this status game appear in a few pitches related to music, like “invest in an NFT that confirms you were into this band first” type interactions that only seem to be important to one particular kindof engineer

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    7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Apr 22
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      Umm... what’s wrong with it? It’s not about cool. It’s practically the job definition of a VC to invest in things early. Advertising. It’s like a programmer bragging they wrote some cool code.

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    8. Drew Austin‏ @kneelingbus Apr 22
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      That's exactly the problem - getting in early as an investment is a totally different endeavor. Conflating the two in this way doesn't really work

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    9. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Apr 22
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      Why not, besides perhaps seeming tasteless to sensitive types? Same kind of discernment being brought to the party. Only difference is taste mavens seem to want to keep things they like obscure and small rather than help them get bigger and better known. Values divergence.

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    10. Drew Austin‏ @kneelingbus Apr 22
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      I guess that's the bargain. Taste mavens will see through the ruse but if you don't care about their opinion you're fine. Toby can probably articulate this better though

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Apr 22
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      Again I don’t see a ruse, just different values at work. The geeks vs mops argument applies, but I don’t see any particular reason to support one side over another.https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths …

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        2. Toby‏ @tobyshorin Apr 22
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          for one thing it’s objectively clownish to try to claim “I heard of it first” about something that’s already super popular. this isn’t a values conflict. more importantly I don’t like the “cool VC” phenomenon because I think the model is more prevalent than it should be

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        3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Apr 22
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          Do you mean Roam for “already super popular”?

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