[nostromo]

I love this mini-essay.

The counter to this is that it'll be harder to raise capital for un-fashionable problems.

If you pitched "ML for sandwich makers" right now you could raise a million bucks because so many VCs are making fashionable bets on ML.

[StavrosK]

So what? Raising is not success.

[Traster]

It's often a pre-requisite for success. It doesn't matter how good your idea is, if you can't get it implemented and supported by a sales team, support team etc. it isn't going to work.

There are brilliant ideas out there, but very few of them are brilliant and require 0 resources to achieve.

[gitgud]

> Raising is not success.

People think raising is a signal for success, when it's more like kissing the dice at a casino

[wwweston]

It’s pretty successful as failures go.

[StavrosK]

I guess, if you define "success" as "managing to borrow money"...