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X's viewpoint on Y needn't have any logical correlation/causation on X's viewpoint on Z, assuming Y & Z are orthogonal and independent.

It is fair to criticize Khosla on beach access, but his investment record is self explanatory for his opinions on tech to be worthy of an audience.

If you believe otherwise, you may also believe boycotting [YC, HN] to be valid and fair, for giving Khosla a platform, and accepting funding for post-seed rounds. This would be wrong. What we need in the valley echo-chamber is a way to disagree without carrying grudges. Diversity of thought is just as valuable as diversity of the labor force.

Most importantly, Khosla's funding, though self-serving, creates jobs and helps companies - that's something we can all get behind unequivocally

[chasing]

It reveals character.

And we all have the freedom and luxury to decide how we want to react to that revelation.

[TACIXAT]

What is particularly impressive about his portfolio? The whole idea of venture capital is placing many bets. In fact elsewhere in this thread people used that same logic to excuse his bad bets. So if you put money into just about every company that gains traction in the SV, why would that indicate brilliance when some of them hit big valuations?