[danellis]

> We all like to drink the cool aid and think that a startup's purpose is societal impact

No, we don't. Who do you think you're speaking for?

[adjkant]

A lot of startups say explicitly that out of one side of their mouth while eating money with the other.

[soVeryTired]

That sentiment is commonplace enough that Silicon Valley parodied it: "We're making the world a better place. Through constructing elegant hierarchies for maximum code reuse and extensibility"