[vrosas]

VC: “I pretended to be a good person because that’s what I thought would make me successful and people love me.”

Everyone: “we can tell you’re an entitled dbag.”

VC: “well now I’m going to act like an entitled dbag and it’s your fault.”

- Me paraphrasing his actual interview. You know who I’m talking about.

[hn_throwaway_99]

> Me paraphrasing his actual interview. You know who I’m talking <about>.

No, we don't, because not all of us watch the same media or follow the same threads.

[0_____0]

same boat as you but I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess Thiel

[mcphage]

> You know who I’m talking about.

All of them?

[giardini]

"> You know who I’m talking about.<"

Sorry, don't know, plz tell us!

[_9ptr]

I don't know what a VC is and at this point I'm afraid to ask

[sanswork]

How did you find yourself on HN and not know what VC means?

[jcranmer]

Hacker News is a social media site for people to talk about (usually) tech-related news. It might be hosted by, and fully run by, a tech startup incubator, but Y Combinator isn't exactly a household name, and the only real indication that this site is related to the incubator is the domain name.

It's pretty easy to come across this site if you're just generally interested in tech stuff (I think everybody I talk to knows exactly what I refer to if I say "the orange site"), and if you're someone who's interested in tech but not particularly plugged into things like the mechanics of startups or business, well, there's a lot on here that's not related to that.

[King-Aaron]

I'm sure if someone came to a site called 'hacker news' and didn't delve deeper past the main content board, then it would be easy to not organically discover what a VC might be.

[sanswork]

It's just weird I guess as someone thats been here a while that there are users that don't know the word VC given its history in the VC/tech startup community.

[jowea]

It has been a long time since this place was mainly about startup culture IMHO.

[viraptor]

https://xkcd.com/1053/

[sanswork]

Context matters though. If you're in a place that has always been about baseball and you say "I have to admit I don't know what a pitcher is" it's going to be a bit weird for the regulars.

In this case though I guess it's just hard for me to recognise how much the focus of this site has shifted and that people can come here that seemingly have no interest in startups/tech/vc.

[viraptor]

It's not a baseball place. It's equivalent to a sports place and one person won't know what a pitcher is and another won't know what a quarterback is. The scope of HN is quite large and diverse. Then again, even on baseball forums there will be a new person from time to time. It's ok.

[_9ptr]

The concept of venture capital is not new to me, but I haven't needed an abbreviation for it until now.

Also, I didn't really see the connection to the US election and vaccines.

[thelastgallon]

Probably Vulture Capitalist?

[drivingmenuts]

Venture Capitalist