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marcus_holmes
I don't have a handle on the politics. Is this part of the purge of people who may have had sex with / propositioned founders? Or is the timing just coincidentally bad?
staticautomatic
Seems like an article designed to take advantage of the coincidental timing.
flinty
especially the disconnected last line thrown in
ghostbrainalpha
Seriously. Fuck you Tech Crunch. This type of profiteering is what plants the seeds of the "fake news" arguments.
hyperbovine
> "my desire to discover and invest in the next new thing became eclipsed by my desire to get my hands dirty again and build the next new thing.”

Why do people write like this? "I'd rather build the next new thing than invest in it."

cariaso
For the same reason Hemingway, Tolstoy and Faulkner write differently. The original text is only applicable when both are viewed positively. Your sentence applies when it's the less crappy of two options.
notfromhere
I wouldn't compare the work of Hemingway, Tolstoy, or Faulkner to that sentence.
chongli
Seriously. That's like comparing a Picasso, a van Gogh, or a da Vinci to something you find on a bathroom stall in some dive bar.
toomuchtodo
Unless it's Banksy's art in that bathroom stall.
hyperbovine
In which case it would be long gone anyways
tresp
Hemingway's style is much more simple than Tolstoy - no doubt he would decry the flowery, unnecessary language of the KP partner. Can't speak for Faulkner but this guy is trying to emulate Dostoevsky
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bshimmin
I think it's for the purposes of rhetoric, with emphasis cast on "the next new thing" by its repetition, and some vague attempt at an ascending tricolon (maybe) with discover/invest/build. It reads quite clunkily but it would probably sound a bit better spoken at a lectern. (Actually, if you drop "get my hands dirty and" it just flows much better generally - I think that's the biggest problem with this sentence.)