[PragmaticPulp]

I joined one of these Slack groups out of curiosity. They had 700 members, and as far as I could tell not a single one of the people active in the discussions was involved with a VC.

A lot of hustle, but it felt like activity was dominated by people with more free time than actual VC work.

Unfortunately, I worry that eager VC firms are going to use this to their advantage. Plenty of young people hoping to get rich quick in the VC world will do a lot of free work in the hopes of securing a job later.

[smabie]

that's how all forums are. For example I frequent r/quant and the vast majority of people aren't quants and instead high school students asking how to become a quant. it's pretty annoying

If someone made a reddit like site where you had to prove qualifications to get into certain forums, I think it would have the potential to do really well.

[enos_feedler]

And you can take this pattern even further back than Reddit. This is no different than the early 90s when everyone hung out in #warez on EFnet, even though very few people were actually involved in the warez scene. That being said, there were always a few true stars lurking in there. I got recruited from there to join private servers as a cracker in serious warez groups of the day. My point is, the social internet hasn't changed in 30 years and we shouldn't be surprised :)

[Something1234]

Expertsexchange?

[s5300]

Can't tell if this is a joke

If not, already cursed by its name unfortunately.

[ricefield]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experts_Exchange