Jason Calacanis to Silicon Valley: Fire Employees Who Don’t Share Passion For Bad Ideas

Something really bothers me about Jason Calacanis. Maybe it’s the fact that I completely hate the idea of Mahalo (really? Human-Powered search? Really?) but I have a general bias against the man that I think is secretly shared by most of the blogosphere. With that in mind, I took a look at his post, “How to Save Money Running a Startup (17 Really Good Tips),” expecting to come away unimpressed and slightly aggravated. While I wasn’t blown away, I was pleasantly surprised with his advice on how to build a cost effective yet comfortable work environment. While most of his office purchases aren’t entirely altruistic, how many can we say are? Even Google’s supposedly utopian work environment strikes me as some scheme cooked up by power-suited, human resources types. What I’d really be interested in, is how he deals with people abusing the perks he’s afforded them, in the same way they’ve abused the ones they were meant to replace.