Aequitas@feddit.org to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 days agoPhoebe Gates wants her $185 million AI startup to succeed with 'no ties to my privilege or my last name': 'I have a chip on my shoulder' | Fortunefortune.comexternal-linkmessage-square132linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkPhoebe Gates wants her $185 million AI startup to succeed with 'no ties to my privilege or my last name': 'I have a chip on my shoulder' | Fortunefortune.comAequitas@feddit.org to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 days agomessage-square132linkfedilink
minus-squaremorphballganon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·10 days agoI’m not disputing that he got his first few roles due to his connections, but changing his name absolutely would have distanced him from his relatives in other directors’ eyes.
minus-squareEvil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.clublinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·10 days agoNo it wouldn’t/didn’t, but it would/did to the masses.
minus-squareTar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·10 days ago absolutely would have distanced him from his relatives in other directors’ eyes. Nah, everyone in the industry would know about this. But random people on the street wouldn’t. And that’s what it’s about when you want to be famous.
I’m not disputing that he got his first few roles due to his connections, but changing his name absolutely would have distanced him from his relatives in other directors’ eyes.
No it wouldn’t/didn’t, but it would/did to the masses.
Nah, everyone in the industry would know about this. But random people on the street wouldn’t. And that’s what it’s about when you want to be famous.