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Found in VC (Venture Capital) Translation

by Larry Chiang on July 21, 2015

By Larry Chiang
VCs are the douchebag, agent-equivalents-in-LA, of Silicon Valley. They say jargon in a way that NFL pro athletes spit hashtags. 
So, let us go behind the veil of secrecy and pierce that corporate lingo that I call JarGashTag– I’ll regurgitate an unintelligible phrase. Then I will translate it for you (plot spoiler, this ends in a fun game for fun and profit.)
“We don’t fund talent here. We fund temperature. And _____ is not hot right now”
TRANSLATION: I don’t think Roelof was investing in social. But I hear he likes car loans disintermdiated– Any way you can pivot to that!? 
“We don’t like to start parades. Just join them”
Translation: this seems one quarter baked. And the fact that your plan for distribution included the spoke phrase “go viral” made us think: Didn’t everyone at Stanford take ENGR145. 
Solution and a hilarious game to play

Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang)

Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang)
when you are saying you’re a top 3 QB, you’re saying you’re #3 @SI_PeterKing 

#3QB 

DJ’s to my startup HASHTAG 3/4s baked.


Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang)
palo alto delivery DOT COM is an example of #3qb
Three qtrs baked cuz its a sequel biz youtube.com/watch?v=oQOC-q…


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Bixby is an overgrown pillow pet Nieman Marcus sells. Err, sold me. So, he is a sequel to regular pillow pets
Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang)
Bryan @bmenell, I just DJ’d @sama‘s class, “#cs183B” to @davemcclure & @bjfogg‘s 2007 class DJ’d in #3QB (it’s 50% more than ( #halfbaked)


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