[WendyTheWillow]

The point isn’t which startups to found, it’s how to find a startup idea if you don’t have one or aren’t sure if your idea is good.

People who are building what they want to see in the world don’t need this article and would likely not even read it. This is for the “entrepreneur as a lifestyle” folks who want more to be entrepreneurs than they want to see a better world.

These people are trying to maximize the chances they’re going to get to keep being entrepreneurs, which is a wholly different problem than what you’re talking about.

[spandrew]

Your point is true, but as many trillion dollar businesses have been created with the "hey look at this cool tech!" school of thinking as the "focus on problems" school of thinking. Google thought they'd sell to Yahoo before they hit pay dirt.

It's a crap shoot, pal ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[WendyTheWillow]

Zero "trillion dollar businesses" were created with the "hey look at this cool tech!" school of thinking. There are 6 "trillion dollar" companies by market cap (terrible measurement but whatever), and every single one of them was founded with a specific market in mind.