Earlier Wednesday, Wiz Khalifa and Kanye West provided Twitter users with some serious entertainment when the rappers — well, mostly Kanye — argued about girls, weed, and career status.
But the celebrity Twitter fights didn’t end there thanks to a poignant tweet from Paul Graham and an unexpected response from Mark Cuban later that evening.
Graham, the Y Combinator accelerator co-founder and Bay Area investor, said that those participating on Shark Tank — the hit ABC show which invites entrepreneurs to pitch their startup ideas to investors — might want to re-think how they spend their time.
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First, Silicon Valley investor Chris Sacca responded with his own thoughts, to which Graham responded.
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A few hours later, Cuban — one of the regular investors on Shark Tank — chimed in.
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It’s unclear why fueled Graham’s criticism of Shark Tank, but he wasn’t the only well-known Bay Area techie complaining about the show.
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On the contrary, it’s not surprising that Cuban responded with his own diss given that he’s on the show. Although, as @ShanghaiTimmy points out, perhaps what added to Cuban’s fiery response was the fact that his Dallas Mavericks were whooped by the Golden State Warriors on Wednesday night in a 127-107 blowout.
Graham, meanwhile, made headlines earlier this month after he wrote a long essay on economic inequality that elicited a passionate response from Seattle Seahawks offensive lineman Russell Okung.