Comments on: The Silicon Valley Organization Names New President and CEO https://www.sanjoseinside.com/business/the-silicon-valley-organization-names-new-president-and-ceo/ A look inside San Jose politics and culture Thu, 22 Apr 2021 21:27:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.6.12 By: Definitely Not SJ Kulak https://www.sanjoseinside.com/business/the-silicon-valley-organization-names-new-president-and-ceo/#comment-1700223 Tue, 20 Apr 2021 14:59:37 +0000 https://www.sanjoseinside.com/?p=201170137#comment-1700223 FACENDO GUAIO –

Are you sure this is what Mr. Trouble thinks, because this one sounds a bit more like ECONOCLAST to me.

]]> By: JohnMichael O’Connor https://www.sanjoseinside.com/business/the-silicon-valley-organization-names-new-president-and-ceo/#comment-1700151 Sun, 18 Apr 2021 18:14:55 +0000 https://www.sanjoseinside.com/?p=201170137#comment-1700151 Mr. Seaver tells us he is “deeply humbled” by being selected the new SVO CEO. Like many politicians boasting of their humility, he’s got it wrong. To be humble is not the same as to be humbled. Humble is an adjective, humbled is a verb. TO BE humbled is to be abased, disrespected, soundly defeated. People who go around boasting of their humility are anything but humble, and should rarely be trusted. Francis of Assisi was a humble man, but he never walked the countryside boasting about his humility.,

]]> By: Facendo Guaio https://www.sanjoseinside.com/business/the-silicon-valley-organization-names-new-president-and-ceo/#comment-1699887 Wed, 14 Apr 2021 19:22:54 +0000 https://www.sanjoseinside.com/?p=201170137#comment-1699887 As Supervisor Ellenberg’s chief of staff he was already engaged in “advocating, promoting and protecting the interests of [SVO] members.” That’s the whole point and the raison d’etre of neoliberal politicians–that’s what they do primarily. What Katie Lauer should have written was that Derrick Seaver will be graduating from what is essentially a paid internship with Ellenberg’s office to the big leagues where his salary will be a multiple of the internship level. As a former employee of the SVO herself, Ellenberg should be able to advise Seaver on salary negotiations there. Or he can ask ex-Vice Mayor Madison Ngyuen who is also an ex-paid intern, in her case with the City of San Jose, now an executive vice president at the SVO (https://www.thesvo.com/candidate-cultivation-academy).

]]> By: Steven Seagull https://www.sanjoseinside.com/business/the-silicon-valley-organization-names-new-president-and-ceo/#comment-1699854 Wed, 14 Apr 2021 12:52:45 +0000 https://www.sanjoseinside.com/?p=201170137#comment-1699854 Fun fact I didn’t see mentioned on any of the news sites covering this announcement – Seaver is a former elected official. Before coming to California, he was elected to the Ohio House of Representatives (the lower body of Ohio’s state legislature, not to be confused with the US House of Representatives) at age 18, when he was a senior in high school. He wrote a book about his experience, “Kid in the House.”

]]> By: HB https://www.sanjoseinside.com/business/the-silicon-valley-organization-names-new-president-and-ceo/#comment-1699852 Wed, 14 Apr 2021 12:31:04 +0000 https://www.sanjoseinside.com/?p=201170137#comment-1699852 Will he bring the Ellenberg policies of spending $1 million on “period poverty “ and providing free feminine products in county buildings into the private sector?

Will the SVO champion countywide (and perhaps even support statewide mandates) legislation to mandate that all private companies mirror the Ellenberg initiatives?

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