Up to the very end I thought it might turn out to be a eulogy, especially given that the title was just "Chris Poole" and not "Chris Poole: Life After 4chan" or something similar.
I had the same thought. I'm a little disappointed this isn't the case, actually.
The article mentions sitting down for lunch last week...business meeting?
Ugh. The last thing a smart, creative young person with a soul needs is to be sucked into the VC empty-air universe.
I'm not criticizing Chris Poole at all, but if your value metric is doing "good in this world," I'm pretty sure Union Square Ventures has brought about more good in this world than 4chan has.
Something tells me parent has a skewed understanding of what (good) VCs do.
I think you have a twisted, corporate definition of "good".