One thing I learned working with in 2014 is how weak "insider" subculture of SV is relative to others I've known like univs, old corps
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By a measure like "how hard it is to get a convo with a given influential person" SV is 10x more open than any other culture I've seen
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in other cultures, but a meaningful exchange between non-peers is incredibly difficult
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Yeah, politics especially is basically a photo-ops currency market at one level.
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Another measure I've found is /meaningful/ convo. Difficult but not impossible to get photo ops with a given influential person...
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that is exactly one of my measures of quality in non-SV tech ecosystems -- the harder to get the intro, the less good the ecosystem
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