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mertbio • yesterday at 10:13 PM • 6 replies • view on HN

Not surprising at all. Many tech CEOs are like this; Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Sergey Brin, Eric Schmidt and so on. People don’t stop idolizing these people, they don’t even think that this is a problem.


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bitcurious • today at 12:32 AM

Something like one in five married men has cheated on their spouse, approx one in eight women. It’s not that tech CEOs are “like this” it’s that they are not that different from other people, outside of their professional skills.

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pokstad • yesterday at 11:04 PM

It’s an odd phenomenon alright. South Park covered it in the episode “Sexual Healing” where famous rich men kept cheating on their wives. We may never get to the bottom of it.

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CodeArtisan • yesterday at 10:31 PM

counter example: Brian Krzanich (intel).

https://www.reuters.com/article/technology/intel-ceo-resigns...

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nerdstomper • yesterday at 10:21 PM

> People don’t stop idolizing these people, they don’t even think that this is a problem.

They'd go as far as to call it a virtue. Silicon Valley is the greatest domestic enemy this country has ever seen. They've built entire machines to protect, reward, and normalize antisocial activity.

lol, I called it perfectly even.

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esfddariowf • yesterday at 10:23 PM

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ahtihn • yesterday at 10:27 PM

What's the point of being a billionaire if you can't sleep with whoever you want?

What even is the problem with that really?

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