Valleywag
So Steve Jurvetson of DFJ, one of the geekier venture capital investors, is planning to build a replica of a V-2, the Nazi rocket which caused thousands of deaths in wartime London. Pah. That's nothing. Out of six founding employees of Paypal, four built bombs when growing up. That factoid, spilled by Paypal savant Peter Thiel, was reported by the Valley's uber networker, Auren Hoffman. So was Hoffman, who calls himself an engineer, himself a geek prodigy?
So Blaine has the brilliant idea of collecting cigarette butts on the ground and then manufacturing new cigarettes. We gathered our product, created an assembly line of white paper, scissors, shredded dried leaves, and scotch tape. Soon we had a few hundred cigarettes and were hawking our wares to all the other kids. And for the first time in my life, I was really popular. [Auren Hoffman]
