[vibhavs]

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.

[ivankirigin]

"Ted was the founding CEO of Fortify Software" doesn't mesh with "lifetime middle manager from Symantec who had never started a company"

[callmeed]

But his winery seems to fit ... http://www.schleinvineyard.com/content/family_2.php

[niallsmart]

I bet there's quite a few successful VCs (and entrepreneurs) who own wineries

[rokhayakebe]

This is not cool.

[hedgehog]

FWIW when I pitched him at KP in 2004 or 2005 he seemed like a decent guy.

[officemonkey]

FWIW 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.