Mezzo Cotto: Y Combinator President Defends ‘Really Bad and Wacky Ideas’

Silicon Valley is caught in a culture civil war over what to do with bros with unpopular opinions. In an essay titled “E Pur Si Muove,” which is Italian for “And yet it moves,” Y Combinator President Sam Altman argued Thursday that San Francisco had grown too repressive:

This thought has been a long time brewing. Altman took over Y Combinator from Paul Graham, the startup essayist who, in what he says was a long-planned move, stepped back from his role at the firm around the same time that the people of Twitter were turning against him.