Editing Meeting Notes 2012 07 17
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Leif says a couple of reasons why he objects: | Leif says a couple of reasons why he objects: | ||
1) We've done pretty well without having a big reserve, and fund-raising | |||
externally. Not looking forward to the next few months discussing how to spend | |||
this money. | |||
2) Thiel isn't a good person, with Facebook, Paypal, and Palantir, and we | |||
shouldn't take his money. This facet of his philanthropic efforts is to improve | |||
his reputation -- he's buying whuffie from us, and we're selling it to him, and | |||
decreasing of our own reputation. I think it's great that we're not funded by | |||
billionaire philanthropists, and I think it would be less great if we do, and | |||
that people would be less interested in giving the money. If he just mailed him | |||
a check, I wouldn't object. | |||
Z says we should say no to the money, and then use that to boost our reputation. | Z says we should say no to the money, and then use that to boost our reputation. |