Eric Newcomer

Very interesting.

Yeah, yeah.

And so I was working out of her apartment in Dolores Park.

Cool.

And then I worked at Bloomberg for six years and started to really get Silicon Valley.

And so when I launched Newcomer, I did write that I wanted contrarian optimism.

I felt like I started my time as a tech reporter being more negative than most because that was the era of sort of the gadget blogger.

And then by the end of my time at Bloomberg,

we had sort of the infiltration of the political reporter who was really gunning for Facebook or whatever.

And so it went from everybody's too soft to everyone's too negative.

And I really just wanted to write for, like your audience, people in Silicon Valley, people who got it, didn't want to have to explain who Marc Andreessen and Bill Gurley were, and just sort of write for the people.

And sometimes that's positive, sometimes that's negative.

Puts me in a sort of weird situation sometimes.

You do best what you enjoy.

I've never heard anyone call me an athlete before a scoop athlete.

The, I mean, I think scoops are the best way to say, you know, we're essential reading.

I think the best takes are ones where, you know, you go talk to people who know, and then you're like, it's not just like I made this up.

It's like, yeah, I talked to people.

It's going to be right.

You know, I want my predictions to come true.