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no nerd would have ever inflicted juicero on the world.

Elmo has exactly one patent to his name and it's just the connector on the Tesla charger cable.

You don't become a billionaire without also pulling some shady shit. If genius alone was what it took then the engineers who make the products would be richer than the CEOs.

They are business dicks.

I miss him

Yup. The Internet of Things was a *huge* consumer scam. None of this stuff requires the ability to phone home to a server only a single company controls. They don't need your email, your logins, they don't need to track your usage data to sell. It was a pretense.

I just came to your comments to say THANK YOU. Aaron was amazing, is missed and should be emblazoned on the hearts and minds of everyone who uses the internet. PERIOD. #IYKYK THAT dude set the bar very very high- one that not a single tech bro will ever reach. He is the hero we need right now :(

This, like most things, is not easily defined in black and white. It's a spectrum. I agree that the people he noted are definitely in the ACTUAL TECHBROS cohort. But I think there are shades of gray that exist within the concept, too.

Jobs wasn't even that great of a CEO. He was a competent and sufficient CEO. He provided a vision and a path forward, like you're supposed to. The only reason everyone fawned over him so much was because most of the CEO class are negligent and incompetent. And they're getting worse.

Just like the hedge fund billionaires are “job creators”

To be fair, Musk did come up with the Tesla door handles, the ones which freeze shut when it's icy out, forcing owners to piss on them just to get into their car. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HauV... The handles also caused a man to burn to death when rescuers couldn't open the doors of his burning car.

Exactly. Techbros are vacuous venture capitalists, not "nerds." They not the guys who spent endless hours as kids building Radio Shack electronics projects. Gates didn't write DOS. Musk didn't design any electric cars. Elisabeth Holmes didn't design the blood test machine that didn't work.