From 'don't be evil' to 'don't be a pussy': an essay on how tech founders lost the room (mrmarket.bearblog.dev)
The post traces three eras of the founder: orbiting the product, then cultural protagonist, then transparent grifter — pointing at the Founders Fund game show as the moment the charm offensive went literal.
A reader who left academia for finance summed up the shift he lived through: the ethos went from 'don't be evil' to 'don't be a pussy.' Others argued the humble nerd was never real, just powerless.
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