From Andreessen to Altman, tech's big dogs know the wildest take wins

Source: Business Insider

Michael Kovac/Getty; Marc Piasecki/Getty; Justin Sullivan/Getty; Tyler Le/BISince a turtlenecked Steve Jobs strode the global stage, tech executives and venture capitalists have doubled as company hypemen, churning out aspirational koans and fantastical assurances about how their products will change the world. As full-time salesmen — especially in the age of virality and world-historic funding rounds — they're incentivized to offer outlandish predictions, promising to settle other planets, reconfigure human consciousness, conquer sleep or death, and financialize every breath of human life. Or just to say some bizarre things about how humanity works.