Tom Perkins made himself a symbol of Silicon Valley tone-deafness earlier this year. He infamously declared the Bay Area's resistance to one percenter techies was akin to the Nazi's war on Jews. But he seems to have come around to the tech detractors' point of view.
This column was originally published in VentureBeat by editor-in-chief Dylan Tweney and is reprinted here with permission. When Kleiner Perkins cofounder Tom Perkins wrote on Friday that a "progressive Kristallnacht" is coming, reaction was swift and severe.
Silicon Valley could not scramble away from Tom Perkins fast enough this week, after one of the founding fathers of venture capital tried to compare class tension directed at San Francisco's 1 percent with what's now basically considered the beginning of the Holocaust.
Last night, Bloomberg West's Emily Chang treated us to one of the greatest TV interviews in recent memory, as she sat down with venture capitalist-cum-cartoon villain Tom Perkins. He not only stood by his Nazi-invoking defense of the rich, he clearly gives no fucks about being an inhuman oligarch. Here are all theā¦
Tom Perkins, the self-proclaimed "King of Silicon Valley," went on Bloomberg TV to apologize for, but then try to legitimize the offensive letter to the editor he recently wrote to the Wall Street Journal. How does the 1 percent defend itself? By bragging that it could buy a six-pack of rolexes.
Silicon Valley has never been known for its appreciation of subtleties. Case in point: eminent venture capitalist Tom Perkins, who co-founded mega-firm Perkins Caufield & Byers, just wrote one of the most disgustingly tone deaf statements on class tensions we've ever seen.