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As I recall the phrase was originally a comment from a new employee who had previously worked in the hardware industry.

Still baffled by the ambiguous name given to this secretive, exploitive set of companies, "tech". What the heck is it. Its everything and nothing, IMO. A cover.

The company is an intermediary, what many in other industries refer to as a "middleman". HN commenters have tried to attack this term in the past, but I just saw it a few months ago being used in a marketing slogan on the side of a company van. People outside of HN know what it means. Perhaps those who argue it is ambiguous on HN are "tech" workers who are aware of its accepted connotation in the real world. Otherwise why be concerned with the term.

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Paul B worked at Intel before Google. He never worked in telecoms. Incidentally he was moderately active here in the FriendFeed days.

Tech means technology. Nothing ambiguous about it.

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Thanks for the correction.