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:<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOubCHLXT6A" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOubCHLXT6A</a><p>First party viewers mostly seemed to like it:<p><a href="http://seen.co/event/startup-school-2013-cupertino-ca-2013-6739/highlight/45740" rel="nofollow">http://seen.co/event/startup-school-2013-cupertino-ca-2013-6...</a><p>CNET gave a second party writeup:<p><a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57608320-93/a-radical-dream-for-making-techno-utopias-a-reality/" rel="nofollow">http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57608320-93/a-radical-dream...</a><p>Then third party people started mischaracterizing it:<p><a href="http://valleywag.gawker.com/silicon-valleys-ultimate-exit-is-a-fantasy-of-seceding-1449199349" rel="nofollow">http://valleywag.gawker.com/silicon-valleys-ultimate-exit-is...</a><p>Finally, the Hill wrote a fourth party account, quoting these third party accounts, and that's what Washington DC saw:<p><a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/state-a-local-politics/330607-will-silicon-valley-secede-balaji-srinivasans-ultimate-exit" rel="nofollow">http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/state-a-local-politics...</a><p>Not everyone got it wrong; I think this account is closer:<p><a href="http://www.randomhouse.ca/hazlitt/blog/virtual-expatriates-and-urbanites-silicon-valley" rel="nofollow">http://www.randomhouse.ca/hazlitt/blog/virtual-expatriates-a...</a><p>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 Valley and DC, and gives a sense of how policy makers can inadvertently form their opinions from echoes of echoes. Doubly ironic and somewhat sad as we can use the internet to make direct connections between people these days. The good thing is that interested parties can see the primary source directly.