{"id":5285,"date":"2012-05-13T03:31:04","date_gmt":"2012-05-12T19:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=5285"},"modified":"2012-05-13T03:31:04","modified_gmt":"2012-05-12T19:31:04","slug":"warren-buffett-is-a-punk-techcrunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2012\/05\/13\/warren-buffett-is-a-punk-techcrunch\/","title":{"rendered":"Warren Buffett Is A Punk &#124; TechCrunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don\u2019t think Buffett is a bad guy. I don\u2019t know him. I have no personal opinion of him. But he\u2019s not your grandfather. Like any hard-core investor, he\u2019d slit your throat in a dark alley before letting you make a dime of profit off of him.My main point is: always look at agendas. Try to understand the real reasons behind someone\u2019s \u201cgood reasons\u201d. And yes, I know there will be comments like \u201cblah blah Buffett is 1000x the investor and man you are.\u201d He probably is. I\u2019m probably a worse punk thank he is. But I admit it. Also, before anyone brings it up: why is this on TechCrunch? Buffett has long commented that \u201ctech is too complicated for me to invest in\u201d and yet now he is one of the largest tech investors on the planet with his investments in IBM, INTC, and DTV. When someone who is so good at crafting agendas turns his eye towards you, you better keep your hands on your wallet.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2012\/05\/12\/warren-buffett-is-a-punk\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29\">Warren Buffett Is A Punk | TechCrunch<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don\u2019t think Buffett is a bad guy. I don\u2019t know him. I have no personal opinion of him. But he\u2019s not your grandfather. Like any hard-core investor, he\u2019d slit your throat in a dark alley before letting you make a dime of profit off of him.My main point is: always look at agendas. Try &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2012\/05\/13\/warren-buffett-is-a-punk-techcrunch\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Warren Buffett Is A Punk &#124; TechCrunch&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}