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Comment by sd9

21 hours ago

I am not equipped to give an opinion on that either way. I’m just saying that building a successful business is independent of the accuracy of your ideology.

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wulfstan  19 hours ago

I think this is partly true. Raising the necessary funds, hiring enough of the right people and become sufficiently visible to get "mindshare" are all important factors in building a successful business. It is a lot harder to do these things if your ideology is out of step with what is considered mainstream.

nephihaha  20 hours ago

Fair comment. They are two different things.

  • yipbub  20 hours ago

    I think it's taking things too literally and pointedly ignoring the subtext while unintended or not having subtext of their own.

    feels like sophistry

    the article connects the two, so they are not orthonogonal either:

    > But even as things got noisy in public, Masad met eerie silence professionally. “My calendar was suddenly empty, because I was talking about Palestine,” he said. “Replit was not a hot company anymore. We did a layoff. And at the same time, a lot of my friends were no longer my friends. I was no longer invited to parties.”

    > Potential partnerships dried up. Masad became a frequent topic in pro-Israel tech groupchats, a source said, where some investors accused him of being antisemitic.

    > A Replit investor who requested anonymity to speak candidly told me Masad’s public persona has been “really challenging,” and he’s had to defend the founder in investor circles. I asked if Masad had lost business because of his views. “I’m sure the answer is yes,” the investor said.