Comment by boothrowaway
5 years ago
Word on the street is that the Roam founder Conan is also getting pushed out for dehumanizing women and abusing meth, and being a general jackass. Silicon Valley has the best culture.
5 years ago
Word on the street is that the Roam founder Conan is also getting pushed out for dehumanizing women and abusing meth, and being a general jackass. Silicon Valley has the best culture.
This tweet didn't age well. https://twitter.com/Conaw/status/1324100838894305281
Given that his name isn't even Conan, everyone should probably treat this as the baseless hearsay that it seems to be.
I don't know the truth around that either way, but I think Roam is based in Utah at some ranch (even if they're funded by a16z). I wouldn't generalize his behavior to the rest of silicon valley culture.
I think his brother was also the QAnon shaman horn guy (at least he said as much on Twitter - maybe it was a joke?).
I don't think this was his brother - I think it was a joke (imo bad taste at the time). I did some research around it and it seemed that his brother does look alike but that other person had a different legal name.
> I wouldn't generalize his behavior to the rest of silicon valley culture.
I get what you're saying here, but they made an entire TV series lampooning silicon valley culture.
Yeah and I liked it - good tongue-in-cheek satire that exaggerated a lot of things that have some basis in truth. It was ultimately a fictional show though and life in silicon valley is a lot more boring than that the vast majority of the time.
Even in that show nobody was on meth iirc.
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Isn't equating "victim of drug addiction" and "harms women" out of line? One is something that isn't really his fault and isn't because of his moral failings, and the other is dehumanizing nearly half of the population.