&gt; Any other (more sane) interpretation might be a really, really profoundly stupid statement, as well<p>Agreed.<p>The exercise in measuring charitability is merely academic in this instance. The bottom line is a VC has said a really stupid thing which goes against his earlier pronouncements on NN, because he literally has money on the line as an FB investor. Which ever way you look at it, he sounds like an out-of-touch corporatist.