Aequitas@feddit.org to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 hours 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-square74fedilinkarrow-up1212arrow-down111
arrow-up1201arrow-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 · 9 hours agomessage-square74fedilink
minus-squaremorphballganon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down3·3 hours 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-squareTar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·26 minutes 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.
minus-squareEvil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.clublinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-22 hours agoNo it wouldn’t/didn’t, but it would/did to the masses.
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.
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.
No it wouldn’t/didn’t, but it would/did to the masses.