Comments on: This Just In - You Work While VCs Go Skiing http://www.realitycrunch.com/social-commentary/this-just-in-you-work-while-vcs-go-skiing/ A healthy dose of reality to the cheerleading and promoting Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:35:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: fred wilson http://www.realitycrunch.com/social-commentary/this-just-in-you-work-while-vcs-go-skiing/#comment-24 fred wilson Sat, 29 Mar 2008 02:07:18 +0000 http://www.realitycrunch.com/social-commentary/this-just-in-you-work-while-vcs-go-skiing/#comment-24 sorry about that. i didn't mean to cheese you or anyone else off. i posted last week that i find it impossible to stop working when i am on vacation http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2008/03/working-on-vaca.html and i got a bunch of great comments that basically said "chill out, check out, relax" so i took their advice, had a great day when i did no work, and i blogged about it the point was to thank the people who got stuff done while i was away. it upsets me that you (and certainly others) took it the wrong way. i understand that being a VC is perceived as a cushy job where you take advantage of the hard work of others and feel badly that i contributed to that viewpoint fred sorry about that. i didn’t mean to cheese you or anyone else off.

i posted last week that i find it impossible to stop working when i am on vacation

http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2008/03/working-on-vaca.html

and i got a bunch of great comments that basically said “chill out, check out, relax”

so i took their advice, had a great day when i did no work, and i blogged about it

the point was to thank the people who got stuff done while i was away.

it upsets me that you (and certainly others) took it the wrong way.

i understand that being a VC is perceived as a cushy job where you take advantage of the hard work of others and feel badly that i contributed to that viewpoint

fred

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