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Well the ultimate drop box hater was Steve Jobs and he wasn't a programmer and turned out to be right.

But the biggest reason is that programmers don't know shit about markets, and startup value is about the market they're trying to position themselves in and not the technology they use to do it. The only thing that makes software startups so good for that is that there's low risk and quick iteration times because our actual work product is ephemeral and has close to zero cost to ship.

A lot of programmer criticism is focused on tech not realizing the tech is a means to an end, which is changing a market or creating a new one.