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  1. Vanity FairNick Bilton2/21/1918 min
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    • bill
      Top reader of all time
      5 years ago

      Silicon Valley created this. Silicon Valley IS this. I can’t stop thinking about Billy McFarland, the guy behind the company behind Frye Festival. Fyre Fest and Theranos are convenient distractions from a much bigger ugliness that’s harder to pin down. A singular word to describe Silicon Valley and everything it contains (VCs, startups, the overarching culture) is vapid. It’s sad to see so many beautiful minds go to waste because nobody has the guts to call a spade a spade.

      Gotta love Nick Bilton for sentences like this: “Despite their unequivocal role in upending our democracy, Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg still run Facebook.”

      • courtney5 years ago

        the documentary about theranos and her was bananas. It’s up on hbo right now.

        • bill
          Top reader of all time
          5 years ago

          Gah!!

          If Jeff and I weren't frantically turning reallyread.it into Readup rn, we'd probably be watching. How does it compare to the Fyre docs?

          • courtney5 years ago

            less laughing at rich people that ate cheese sandwiches and more holy fuck they were giving people wrong lab results and she was able to pull it off for so long.