Most implementations are a weekend project for a programmer and a lot of real resources go into selling a for loop to count $thing; there’s little net new tech to it
Everything else about startups is hype generation, roleplay, resource waste to enable all of it…
It all reminds me of those dudes on TV in the 80s screaming about the latest Sony VCR, and Lay-Z-Boy; it’s all gaming my agency and attention.
After 23 years in CE/SWE and a bit more than that in our society, I don’t hate startups; I find our culture to be monopolized by repetitive, shallow sales pitches as if we’re above doing real work to support biology; we just externalize the mess to keep coddling suburban kids who are now grown up running startups.
Girgori Perelman is more of a role model to me than any startup founder and VC will ever be.
“Oh but we’re fixing these other things in society…” yeah it’s all trade offs. We’re making tons of other problems due to it.
There’s evidence in neuroscience teens brains switch off to mom, seek new ideas, experience. IMO it’s immoral to foist on next generation deference to elders contracts and value store. I don’t care any of those vain old men with their dubious success story I wasn’t there to verify claim to be rich. I want to define my own value store, not fellate someone else’s figurative identity.
As far as we know, humans are unique in the universe. Does not make humans important to it. Like past story of religion perpetuating story of nation state pride is just as empty, vacuous, and entitled.
Startups suck as a result of our society having caretaking of elder nostalgia and belief, sacrifice such that it is, is to be celebrated by everyone that comes after. It’s just gross group think.