What is true is that for a VC’s business model to work, it’s necessary for you to give up your life in order for him to become richer.

Follow the fucking money. When a VC tells you what’s good for you, check your wallet, then count your fingers.

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Jamie “JWZ” Zawinski calls Arrington out for disingenuously using Zawinski’s blog posts from 1994 as some sort of rallying cry about how to make it in Silicon Valley.

It’s a damn shame more people listen to self-aggrandizing idiots like Arrington than people who actually build things.

(Buzz has a smarter retort than mine and the Hacker News thread on Zawinski’s post is great.)