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Top VC Firm Says Techies Need to Get Along With Government

posted by CoolHand on Friday April 17 2015, @11:43AM   
from the bow-to-our-capitalist-overlords dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

A Venture Capital firm says techies need to get along with government:

From Airbnb to Uber, some of Silicon Valley’s most successful companies have been fighting regulators since their inception. Now, one of the tech industry’s most respected venture capital firms wants to help both sides of the battle make nice with each other.

Andreessen Horowitz announced today that it’s launching a new policy and regulatory affairs unit, and that it has appointed Ted Ullyot, Facebook’s former general counsel, to lead the shop. Ullyot, who worked at both the White House and the Department of Justice before coming to the Valley, will be tasked with helping the firm’s portfolio companies see eye to eye with the government regulators with whom they’re increasingly butting heads.

Well, what do techies say, agree with the VC or string them up by their toes and poke them with sticks? Inquiring minds want to know...

• Re:How bout government getting along with techies? Re:How bout government getting along with techies? (Score: 3, Insightful) by Leebert on Friday April 17 2015, @09:25PM

  by Leebert (3511) on Friday April 17 2015, @09:25PM (#172200)

  All by himself with no provocation whatsoever? Or was driven to suicide by the unreasonable overreaction of contemptibles acting on the authority of state?

  Immaterial. Suicide is, by definition, killing oneself. Not being killed by someone else.

  You can perhaps argue that someone drove him to take that action. But Swartz was not killed by anyone other than himself. Making demonstrably incorrect statements is no way to further a cause.

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• Re:How bout government getting along with techies? Re:How bout government getting along with techies? (Score: 2) by sjames on Saturday April 18 2015, @09:24PM

  by sjames (2882) on Saturday April 18 2015, @09:24PM (#172587) Journal

  So your position is that Socrates committed suicide and the state was blameless?

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  • Re:How bout government getting along with techies? (Score: 2) by Leebert on Sunday April 19 2015, @03:09AM

    by Leebert (3511) on Sunday April 19 2015, @03:09AM (#172696)

    So your position is that Socrates committed suicide

    Correct.

    the state was blameless?

    Incorrect.

    Now ask me about teenagers committing suicide because of "cyberbullying".

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