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by 2pEXgD0fZ5cF 1699 days ago
What I get from this post is how out of touch the world of silicon valley, tech investments and startups have become with reality. Almost anything can "make you rich" in the loop that goes: Idea -> Startup -> Impressing investors -> sell out and move on.

In that world, the presentation of your idea/product is everything, and the idea/product only plays a minor role, because you have to impress rich people that often don't know anything about it. Once you succeed you can pump so much money into it that even the worst idea is able to create some success.

Back to the post: It feels like this kind of sentiment is what spawned the feeling behind it. The projects very much seem straight out of a "new app to change the world" presentations aimed towards investors.

I do not doubt that they could generate profit, but I doubt that they have all that much value.

Add to that the startup sentiment of "if it's not an immediate huge success it's basically a failure" that the post radiates.

Even the conclusion of the post gives me the vibes that the takeaway should be to churn out more, any projects faster, until something eventually sticks.