You know, almost everybody who reads Hacker News would benefit from knowing how Kleiner treats founders. This very much meshes with my experience with them at KnowNow, where I wasn't a founder but was a pre-funding employee. Ben's de-anonymization of Steve's story is a public service.
Perhaps, but I think a slight disservice to Blank. I understand the argument and see its merit, but I also think that anyone who would be involved with them could just as easily have done it themselves.
People get busy. If someone reading this starts looking at VC in a month, will they find this story again? If they do will they have time to go back and search for it? I'm betting not. And so they won't draw the connection.
Their odds of drawing the connection in a month are much, much better if they've seen the name instead.
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You know, almost everybody who reads Hacker News would benefit from knowing how Kleiner treats founders. This very much meshes with my experience with them at KnowNow, where I wasn't a founder but was a pre-funding employee. Ben's de-anonymization of Steve's story is a public service.
Perhaps, but I think a slight disservice to Blank. I understand the argument and see its merit, but I also think that anyone who would be involved with them could just as easily have done it themselves.
Could, yes. But would they?
People get busy. If someone reading this starts looking at VC in a month, will they find this story again? If they do will they have time to go back and search for it? I'm betting not. And so they won't draw the connection.
Their odds of drawing the connection in a month are much, much better if they've seen the name instead.