Balaji Srinivasan at Startup School 2013
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN commenters link it as the original talk so people can judge it directly instead of through press retellings.
What it is
Balaji Srinivasan's Startup School 2013 talk on Silicon Valley's Ultimate Exit, arguing for building alternatives outside existing institutions. It is the primary source for a much-retold and much-distorted idea.
Recommended by 1 HN commenters across 1 different months, 2013 to 2020.
What Hacker News said
Recommends digitalwaveride · 2014-12 · on “How Paul Graham Is Wrong”
There are companies like teleport [LINK] that try to visualise this potential with data. Also recommend this YCombinator startup school talk by Balaji Srinivasan on this topic: Silicon Valleys Ultimate Exit [this video]
Cites balajis · 2013-10 · on “Startup School 2013 Videos Now Online”
One of the speakers here. I found the online reaction to my talk pretty interesting as a case study in internet telephone. Here's the talk itself: [this video] First party viewers mostly seemed to like it: [LINK] CNET gave a second party writeup: [LINK] Then third party people started mischaracterizing it: [LINK] Finally, the Hill wrote a fourth party account, quoting these third party accounts, and that's what Washington DC saw: [LINK] Not everyone got it wrong; I think this account is closer: [LINK] But I encourage you to open up those tabs and go through them one by one to see a kind of pinball reflection of the tone of the talk. In microcosm it's an example of the emerging gap between Silicon
Cites robomartin · 2013-10 · on ““The real problems are with the back end of the software””
...and the website is not the worst part of the ACA ride we are now on. Part of me has been ignoring a lot of the chatter around the ACA as potential right wing fabricated drama. Too much noise and bilateral bullshit being thrown about these days. That was until a few days ago, when I would learn our insurance has both more than doubled in cost and is also scheduled for cancellation. Doubled and cancelled. All as a direct result of the ACA. Brilliant! To say this was shocking is an understatement. Our annual cost will go well past $15K. There's a tragedy of unintended consequences, side effects and direct effects, being played out in the background that hasn't completely come to the surface
Cites DanielRibeiro · 2013-11 · on “Silicon Valley Has an Arrogance Problem”
The talk "Silicon Valley's Ultimate Exit" that the article mentions was (also?) given at Startup School a few weeks ago: [this video]
Cites crassus · 2013-11 · on “Silicon Valley Has an Arrogance Problem”
Here's the original talk for anyone that prefers original content to the "journalist telephone" game [this video]
Cites alainmeier · 2013-12 · on “Bitcoin, Magical Thinking, and Political Ideology”
> Silicon Valley ideologues are proposing secession I believe no one ever said this; it has been misreported by Gawker and others. If you're curious, the original talk is here with no mention of secession: [this video]
Cites dsk139 · 2014-04 · on “Tech Trends 2014”
Interesting that Balaji Srinivasan talked about this concept of Silicon Valley as the enemy at startup school last year. [this video]
Cites TeMPOraL · 2014-08 · on “Some Dark Patterns Now Illegal in UK”
> In that case, immigration is the only choice. That would be the "exit" from [0]. [0] - [this video]