Investor Warns Against Moving to DC/SF for 'Impact': You're Joining a Parasite
StewartalsopIII · x · 2026-11-04
Ivan Vendrov posted a PSA: if you feel you "need" to move to DC or SF to "have an impact," consider that you may be joining a parasitic organism trying to eat the world, with a history of co-opting people better and wiser than you. His advice: only move there if it sounds really fun. Stewart Alsop III amplified the take.
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