clubby

Let's get rid of all this nonsense-- the clubby VCs, the slimy back-channeling-- and figure out a way to start fresh.

Go for a less mature, lessy clubby, better-paid, higher-growth segment, where the difference between a guru and a novice is closer to 2 years than to 5 years.

This adversarial relationship is efficient - it keeps markets from getting too clubby.

They could both be true -- there was a lot of clubby legislation to benefit the financial community, and the models were wrong.

VC is a clubby world; you can understand why she'd plead for someone not to be fired, even after being wronged by that person.

Hey, by the way, the fact that this industry is so clubby, and that having the right friends rockets you to the front of the line?

The AV industry is particularly weird and clubby and, I think, full of itself.

VC doesn't want not to be a clubby, relationship-based business, because who-you-know cultures are great at giving the well-connected an extortive power that they wouldn't otherwise have.

Only real competition can regulate such markets, the competition that comes from eliminating barriers to entry and allowing folks like Angel List and Funders Club to disrupt clubby Wall Street.

I find no problem in being politically correct, and it presents a good opportunity to adopt more precise terms since technical language full of anachronisms is clubby and corny.

Unfortunately, these resources aren't being used right, because the culture of the Valley is anti-intellectual, status-driven, clubby, and run through with every dark aspect of human nature that universities were supposed to educate and elevate humans out of.

The original (private capital / high-prestige colleges - or their synthesis in Harvard, a hedge fund with a university attached for tax purposes) is a clubby self-dealing arrangement designed to preserve a certain level of oligopoly profits.

I might have to borrow that last bit, too: "he was a bit too fight-clubby for me".

British novelist Zadie Smith writes about her dad and their walks in public gardens." It has its quirks and limitations -- Anglophilia, Isaiah Berlin, clubby-ness ("the New York review of each other's books), East-coast myopia.

They took the visual cues of the rich, the exclusiveness, the clubby feel un-rich people imagine exists ("But of course!") and placed it right in front of the fact they were flogging mustard for 4 bucks a jar.

However, I can tell you that there are definitely major companies involved, if you're looking for a particularly Fight-Clubby response.