Except the pictures are close to 4 years old.
Of a college kid.
Want to bet there are not worse pictures of CEOs laying around? I have friends who started in startups when Silicon Valley was just starting to pop, and he has stories about Kawasaki and Ellison that are easily going to beat this.
Particularly stories of Ellison chasing chicks down the street with his pants down to his ankles.
Also I know a very respected, very accomplished FBI agent I trained with back in the day. He has done tremendous work since then, I even recall him having a character in a very well known spy novel that was based on him. But my main memory of him was seeing him chase a naked midget stripper down the street while he was high on weed with after setting his pubic hair on fire. Watching a 310lb former body builder with his junk on fire chasing a little naked chick down the road is far worse than this gas mask thing. But he went on to great things.
I get we all care so much that they are smoking weed, because they clearly as college kids should be living life running plays in their spare time on their iPad.
But the scrutiny is blatant hypocrisy. I don't smoke but I saw plenty of very accomplished, well known people in the business community that were just fine with popping out some herb at a party - that does not even count college.
As long as the kid is running around taking the stuff that Ragnar Lothbrok is taking on the TV show, I could care less. Don't beat kids, animals or women. Play great football and make those around you great. Follow the rules once you start getting a paycheck.
The rest I don't care about because half the people that are calling him out for this crap did it themselves at some point, maybe sans gas mask - but the sanctimony? Please.
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