[idlewords]

This is a nice "silicon valley in a nutshell" post. Meandering startup skates by on generous funding rounds before finding itself a niche in the surveillance economy, where it is (of course) still not profitable, but congratulating itself for the ability to able to raise further investor money, conditioned on the prospect of expanding monitoring software to ever wider markets (while as a sideline ruining San Francisco for working people). An unusually clear example of startup tools building startup tools.

[ironmagma]

How is employing people to work in San Francisco “ruining San Francisco for working people”?

[jazzyjackson]

I'm assuming he means 'all the working people besides startup types who now have to compete in rent and cost of living'