{"id":7800,"date":"2020-02-22T09:35:03","date_gmt":"2020-02-22T15:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=7800"},"modified":"2020-02-22T09:35:04","modified_gmt":"2020-02-22T15:35:04","slug":"both-sides-the-tech-press-v-the-tech-insiders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=7800","title":{"rendered":"Both Sides The tech press v. the tech insiders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/500ish.com\/both-sides-16a262e6056f\">MG Siegler:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I cannot believe I missed this past weekend\u2019s Bitchmeme,\u00b9 especially since it\u2019s right in my wheelhouse: the ever-chilling war between the press and insiders. It seems to me this is likely a normal state of being in every industry. But it becomes far more pronounced as said industry grows in power and import. And so here we are in the tech industry in 2020.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>This is my wheelhouse because I have been both a part of the press and, more recently, an insider. Well, as \u201cinsider\u201d as a VC can be. This varies pretty wildly, in my experience. But I digress. Point is: I may have an interesting vantage point here having been on both sides. You decide.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>So when I read Hunter\u2019s post seemingly walking straight down the middle of those two sides, my instinct was to find this approach too vanilla. Surely some side is worse here, right?\u00b2<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MG Siegler: I cannot believe I missed this past weekend\u2019s Bitchmeme,\u00b9 especially since it\u2019s right in my wheelhouse: the ever-chilling war between the press and insiders. It seems to me this is likely a normal state of being in every industry. But it becomes far more pronounced as said industry grows in power and import. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7800"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7801,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7800\/revisions\/7801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}