text: 2013-12-15T13:55:00Z
  Greg Gopman, and a friend.
  Flickr/The Pageman
  Former AngelHack CEO Greg Gopman apologized last week for a series of posts on Facebook in which he said that homeless "trash" had no place in the "heart of our city," San Francisco. He wrote:
  It's ugly, class-war stuff. But Gopman isn't alone. There have been a rash of incidents in which tech execs appear to have interpreted their personal economic success as proof of their permanent superior status to the rest of us.
  Peter Shih, founder of a payments startup called Celery, wrote an infamous blog post in August about all the things he hates about San Francisco. Among his dislikes: the homeless, the transvestites, the women, and the cyclists.
  Michael Birch, co-founder of Bebo and The Battery.
  Infomatique via Flickr
  A slide from Srinivasan's talk.
  CNET described the end of his speech this way: "By the time he finished, a slide showing an artist's rendition of what a techno-utopia might look like if it were blossoming in the ocean off the coast of what could only be Northern California evoked his vision nicely. But it still looked eerily like the floating space station in Neill Blomkamp's dystopian commentary 'Elysium.'"
  One of Seastead's proposed islands.
  Larry Page, and part of the world.
  Yahoo's glorious leader.
  Yahoo published a book of notes written by her employees thanking her for being their CEO, as if she were Chairman Mao of China. A Vanity Fair profile of Mayer described it thusly:
  Nothing to lose but their apps.
  Chamath Palihapitiya is now a VC in Palo Alto, Calif.
  Chamath Palihapitiya / Twitter
  Marc Andreessen will dismiss this column.
  And former Facebook president Sean Parker threatened to sue bloggers for defamation if they kept writing about his $4.5 million "Lord of the Rings"-style wedding.