Editor’s Morning Note: If you peel back the clouds surrounding Spin Mountain, there is much in tech left to be undesired.
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Stock image of Spin Mountain, taken in 1843 on a proto-iPhone.
While writing something short about the IPO market yesterday, I ran across an image that caught my eye. This, I thought, must be how venture capitalists imagine themselves.
Given the implication that the venture kids were deluded, it wasn’t a very kind thought. But it worked enough as a concept to doodle up a few other ideas concerning you and I, and how we view ourselves in contrast to reality.So, for fun, this.
Venture Capitalists
How they see themselves:
![Screen Shot 2016-08-29 at 12.14.30 PM](https://wordpress.mattermark.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Screen-Shot-2016-08-29-at-12.14.30-PM.png)
How they are seen by others:
![Screen Shot 2016-08-29 at 11.21.47 AM](https://wordpress.mattermark.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Screen-Shot-2016-08-29-at-11.21.47-AM.png)
Viva Vevo.
What people actually want:
![Screen Shot 2016-08-29 at 11.35.44 AM](https://wordpress.mattermark.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Screen-Shot-2016-08-29-at-11.35.44-AM.png)
Image via Flickr user Ildar Sagdejev under CC BY 2.0. Image has been cropped.
The Tech Press
How it sees itself:
![Screen Shot 2016-08-29 at 11.19.33 AM](https://wordpress.mattermark.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Screen-Shot-2016-08-29-at-11.19.33-AM.png)
Via HuffPo.
How it is seen by others:
![Screen Shot 2016-08-29 at 11.19.33 AM](https://wordpress.mattermark.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Screen-Shot-2016-08-29-at-11.19.33-AM.png)
What people actually want:
![giphy (3)](https://wordpress.mattermark.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/giphy-3-1.gif)
Founders
How they view themselves:
![Screen Shot 2016-08-29 at 11.51.14 AM](https://wordpress.mattermark.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Screen-Shot-2016-08-29-at-11.51.14-AM.png)
Image via Flickr user Heisenberg Media under CC BY 2.0. Image has been cropped.
How others see them:
![giphy (5)](https://wordpress.mattermark.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/giphy-5.gif)
What people actually want:
![Screen-Shot-2016-06-23-at-7.59.55-AM](https://wordpress.mattermark.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Screen-Shot-2016-06-23-at-7.59.55-AM.png)