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Tangent: So I'll be honest -- I was curious as to who the "jackass VC" was. After a little digging around, I think it's Ted Schlein: http://www.kpcb.com/team/sc
by vibhavs 16y ago
Tangent: So I'll be honest -- I was curious as to who the "jackass VC" was. After a little digging around, I think it's Ted Schlein: http://www.kpcb.com/team/schlein http://www.kpcb.com/team/schlein.
- ivankirigin 16y ago"Ted was the founding CEO of Fortify Software" doesn't mesh with "lifetime middle manager from Symantec who had never started a company"
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- callmeed 16y agoBut his winery seems to fit ... http://www.schleinvineyard.com/content/family_2.php http://www.schleinvineyard.com/content/family_2.php
- niallsmart 16y agoI bet there's quite a few successful VCs (and entrepreneurs) who own wineries
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- hedgehog 16y agoFWIW when I pitched him at KP in 2004 or 2005 he seemed like a decent guy.
- officemonkey 16y agoFWIW I thought the whole aside about the VC guy felt off-topic. It didn't add value to the article and its only purpose was to make the writer look cooler than the strawman he constructed. Frankly, I was turned off by the distraction and skimmed the rest of the article.
- rokhayakebe 16y agoThis is not cool.