{"id":1110799,"date":"2015-10-05T02:00:38","date_gmt":"2015-10-05T06:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/2015\/10\/05\/the-close-relationship-between-hoffman-and-the\/"},"modified":"2015-10-05T10:21:14","modified_gmt":"2015-10-05T14:21:14","slug":"the-close-relationship-between-hoffman-and-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/2015\/10\/05\/the-close-relationship-between-hoffman-and-the\/","title":{"rendered":"The close relationship between Hoffman and the&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The close relationship between Hoffman and the White House isn\u2019t just about his being a major political donor. He and others like him have something more powerful than money to offer: a way for officials to connect with the largest possible audiences. In the nineteenth century, the bosses of political machines served this role; in the twentieth, it was media barons, especially in broadcasting and newspapers; in the twenty-first, it is people who have created vast online social networks.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;Even in this age of inequality, there\u2019s nothing as unequal as the distribution of success in Silicon Valley. One of Hoffman\u2019s venture-capital friends, Mike Maples, Jr., estimates that of the roughly thirty thousand tech startups a year, only ten will wind up representing ninety-seven per cent of the total value of all of them, and one will represent as much value as all the others combined.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;A waiter entered. \u201cI have an algorithm,\u201d Hoffman said. \u201cIf it\u2019s a good place, order the special. If it\u2019s a bad place, order what they can\u2019t screw up.\u201d They ordered the special.<\/p>\n<p><cite>http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2015\/10\/12\/the-network-man?mbid=rss<\/cite><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The close relationship between Hoffman and the White House isn\u2019t just about his being a major political donor. He and others like him have something more powerful than money to offer: a way for officials to connect with the largest possible audiences. In the nineteenth century, the bosses of political machines served this role; in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[253,252],"views":775,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110799"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1110799"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1112762,"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110799\/revisions\/1112762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1110799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1110799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1110799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}