Ideology and branding go hand in hand. They inhibit intellectual honesty.
During his celebrated startup school talk dhh said that the few examples of extremely successful VC funded companies are brought up over and over to brainwash. It played out even better since he went (right?) after Greg McAdoo who had the great analogy of the surfer on the big wave with and the slides to go with it. Dhh had a point, though. And a very good one at that.
Whenever I realize there is some brainwashing I look for the ulterior motive. In the case of the seed ...
