[Suppafly]

>Folks seem eager to start acting like a CEO and delegating things to people paid with investor money rather than making something themselves and getting it off the ground.

This, but also it's a bit like gambling, this is the high risk / high reward way to do startups. The slower way is more stable, but you don't get to have fun with other people's money while you're building the business.

[chefandy]

Sure. What strikes me as strange, however, is the attitude that this is the only possible path to starting your own business in tech. Sure you’re not going to start up your own social network, but maybe you’ve got a great idea for some kind of QoL thing that helps people work with these big inflexible systems? Many of these startups seem to be shit at providing expertly personalized or customized services because they’re trying to be a big at-scale corporation from day one. Maybe you devise a way to semi-automate customized solutions for some common enterprise thing too sticky for at-scale services to address specifically so companies have to do it in—house? It seems like there are problems that would be easier to address with a small business like that which could organically grow into something sustainable. Definitely not sexy, and I think people making tech startups currently are often more interested in sexy than anything else.