It was a deliberate choice. When packing for a trip to NY and thinking about what you're going to wear onstage, one does not "accidentally" wear socks with sandals. Pg is a very smart guy - clearly he knows what the impact would be.
I think it has more to do with maintaining a kind of legitimacy/authenticity within the hacker community than anything else. It's just good business sense to be the opposite of what geeks don't like/understand: VCs in suits. When you're in the business of funding businesses, you want to be approachable.
I use my footwear as a test. If you don't like me simply because I'm wearing comfortable sandals, then I wouldn't have liked you either and I've saved us both a spot of trouble.
Birkenstocks are a kind of footwear. Lots of people like them. What's the point of getting affronted by this? Does it make the world anything other than worse?
It was a deliberate choice. When packing for a trip to NY and thinking about what you're going to wear onstage, one does not "accidentally" wear socks with sandals. Pg is a very smart guy - clearly he knows what the impact would be.
I think it has more to do with maintaining a kind of legitimacy/authenticity within the hacker community than anything else. It's just good business sense to be the opposite of what geeks don't like/understand: VCs in suits. When you're in the business of funding businesses, you want to be approachable.
Birkenstocks with socks is okay: http://www.gq.com/style/style-guy/shoes/200309/birkenstocks
Birkenstocks are never OK.
I use my footwear as a test. If you don't like me simply because I'm wearing comfortable sandals, then I wouldn't have liked you either and I've saved us both a spot of trouble.
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And fashion snobbery is?
Birkenstocks are a kind of footwear. Lots of people like them. What's the point of getting affronted by this? Does it make the world anything other than worse?
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I can't tell if you're talking about this as if it actually means something or not.