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12-15-2017, 10:40 AM
Y Combinator's Sam Altman wishes San Francisco was more open-minded, like China
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Sam Altman is a Silicon Valley kingmaker. Sam Altman is rich. Sam Altman wears cargo shorts. Sam Altman is awful.*
As president of Y Combinator (http://mashable.com/category/y-combinator/), an internationally renowned startup accelerator based in Mountain View, California, the 32-year-old has an outsized influence on the world of tech. The seed money his company doles out has both life-changing effects on its recipients and the potential to reshape entire industries (https://www.wired.com/2017/02/airbnbs-surprising-path-to-y-combinator/).*
And if Altman's latest blog post is any indication, this has all very much gone to his head.*
SEE ALSO: Tech CEOs are looking more and more like politicians (http://mashable.com/2017/04/20/tech-ceos-are-the-new-politicians/)
Titled "E Pur Si Muove" in a transparent attempt to position himself as a righteous contrarian speaking truth to power à la Galileo Galilei, Altman explains in the post (http://blog.samaltman.com/e-pur-si-muove) how toxic censorship has supposedly crushed intellectual dissent in San Francisco. You see, according to the 2015 Forbes 30-under-30 luminary (https://www.forbes.com/pictures/fhgl45hjeg/sam-altman-29/#533e3b6b4748), daring to disagree even in the slightest with the politically correct monsters that run this town is now enough to get you driven out of it.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/12/14/sam-altman-is-awful/)
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Sam Altman is a Silicon Valley kingmaker. Sam Altman is rich. Sam Altman wears cargo shorts. Sam Altman is awful.*
As president of Y Combinator (http://mashable.com/category/y-combinator/), an internationally renowned startup accelerator based in Mountain View, California, the 32-year-old has an outsized influence on the world of tech. The seed money his company doles out has both life-changing effects on its recipients and the potential to reshape entire industries (https://www.wired.com/2017/02/airbnbs-surprising-path-to-y-combinator/).*
And if Altman's latest blog post is any indication, this has all very much gone to his head.*
SEE ALSO: Tech CEOs are looking more and more like politicians (http://mashable.com/2017/04/20/tech-ceos-are-the-new-politicians/)
Titled "E Pur Si Muove" in a transparent attempt to position himself as a righteous contrarian speaking truth to power à la Galileo Galilei, Altman explains in the post (http://blog.samaltman.com/e-pur-si-muove) how toxic censorship has supposedly crushed intellectual dissent in San Francisco. You see, according to the 2015 Forbes 30-under-30 luminary (https://www.forbes.com/pictures/fhgl45hjeg/sam-altman-29/#533e3b6b4748), daring to disagree even in the slightest with the politically correct monsters that run this town is now enough to get you driven out of it.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/12/14/sam-altman-is-awful/)
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