[RjQoLCOSwiIKfpm]

Money, through the arrival of the masses?, has really sucked the Internet and IT dry.

Back then it was "build cool shit".

Now it is "extract cool dollars".

[jmathai]

This was really evident the last time I drove up into San Francisco and noticed how bland all of the tech billboards were. Nothing interesting or novel…just a lot of enterprise SaaS products.

Looked a lot different 15 years ago.

[nine_k]

15 years ago? In 2008, the year of the Great Recession? Are you certain?..

[jmathai]

Yes. That's when I moved out to California. The tech industry looked and felt a lot different then than it does now. Recession or not.

[nine_k]

It had taken the colonel seventy-five years—the seventy-five years of his life, minute by minute—to reach this moment. He felt pure, explicit, invincible at the moment when he replied: “Cool shit.”

(I'll show myself out)