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Mixing Work and Politics

I read this morning (via Buzzmachine) that Tim Oren had moved his blog, Due Diligence, from the Pacifica Fund website to TypePad for two reasons.

One of them was his partners' concern that hosting it at Pacifica's website would create the appearance that Pacifica was endorsing Tim's political views.

It's a real concern and something that I have often thought about as I have been playing out this exercise in transparency that is my blog.

My partner doesn't share my political views. He's in the middle along with Jeff, Tim, and most other rational people. The views expressed on this blog are not the views of my firm. They are my views.

Further, when I blog that I root for the Jets, it doesn't mean that my firm is rooting for the Jets and rooting against the Patriots. It means that I do that.

Hopefully, the world will understand this distinction. It's important to me that they do.

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Posted September 13, 2004 in Venture Capital and Technology

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One would think that since your company name and logo are not to be found on your blog that the views presented do not reflect upon anybody other than yourself.

Posted by: jackson | Sep 13, 2004 2:21:27 PM

I guess it boils down to what the URL symbolises at least to what others assume it symbolises.

Posted by: Jacob | Sep 13, 2004 11:04:32 PM

"Transparency" implies there's some notion of common sense governing things. Intellegent people can seperate your firm from yourself, and the ones who can't are fools.

And who cares what the fools think?

Posted by: hugh macleod | Sep 14, 2004 4:18:02 AM

a-freaking-men!

Posted by: Peter Caputa | Sep 15, 2004 10:00:58 PM

a-freaking-men!

(Except for the Patriots part)

Posted by: peter caputa | Sep 15, 2004 10:01:26 PM

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