Tangent: So I'll be honest -- I was curious as to who the "jackass VC" was. Afte...

ivankirigin · on March 22, 2011

"Ted was the founding CEO of Fortify Software" doesn't mesh with "lifetime middle manager from Symantec who had never started a company"

callmeed · on March 22, 2011

But his winery seems to fit ... http://www.schleinvineyard.com/content/family_2.php

niallsmart · on March 22, 2011

I bet there's quite a few successful VCs (and entrepreneurs) who own wineries

rokhayakebe · on March 22, 2011

This is not cool.

hedgehog · on March 22, 2011

FWIW when I pitched him at KP in 2004 or 2005 he seemed like a decent guy.

officemonkey · on March 22, 2011

FWIW I thought the whole aside about the VC guy felt off-topic. It didn't add value to the article and its only purpose was to make the writer look cooler than the strawman he constructed.

Frankly, I was turned off by the distraction and skimmed the rest of the article.