[watwut]

> Startups are inherently disruptive.

They are not, the disruption itself becoming the praiseworthy goal was not there initially. Initially, the rhetoric was about creating new things, building companies and booming economy.

It changed into disruption only later. At some point, disrupting became the praised thing, even if you was in the loss the whole time and did not really produced anything better.

[gwbas1c]

Uh, no; it's worth skimming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovator%27s_Dilemma to understand. Innovation always disrupts something else.

> Initially, the rhetoric was about creating new things, building companies and booming economy.

The "new things" always disrupt something else. IE, a mechanized excavator disrupts people who made their living digging ditches.

BTW, were you around Silicon Valley in the 2005-2015 decade? The people making AI were easy to find and were very clearly "about creating new things, building companies and booming economy".

[anon373839]

I actually think this happened around the time Silicon Valley stopped coming up with good ideas.