I don't think you really mean financial advisors (someone who helps someone invest in public assets, they may work off fees, kickbacks, or by simply selling their employer's assets) I suspect you may mean a fund manager, someone who runs a mutual fund?

That would be true for partners - but most VC firms take money from investors (pension funds, wealthy individuals) and invest it in companies.

Hey look, I found the suckers you hear about being born every minute.

That's an interesting point - isn't the board responsible for overseeing both risk & finances? The acquisition is big enough that it must have needed board approval and diligence would have been part of that oversighte.

Yea, I'd even question the notion that 'top coders' go to these events. I've had the opportunity to work with a lot of people who pioneered modern open source developer tools over the past 20-years and I can't recall ever talking about coding competitions.

Its just as dumb as stable coins. Just use real money.

What makes you think Bezos is involved here? This is a bunch of cyrptiots that setup a secondary market to gamble on tokens that supposedly track stock prices.

The media never said not to fly a flag, that is complete nonsense.

People talk about Inbox Zero, I'm more in the Inbox Unread camp.

Elon is a dumbass but this is one of the few times there may be a valid point about some of the accounts. Modi is a little dictator.

cleaning up after idiots is what he's describing

Yea, apparently every company everywhere now always has "higher than normal call volume" judging by their voice systems.

Usually they're arguing for h1b visas

What does Facebook need immigration for at the same time they're laying off employees.

Wasn't the story that Facebook also pirated these books? Seems like they could also be sued for copyright infringement.