[michaelochurch]

VC-istan isn't "technology". It's cutting-edge marketing, and only as technological as it needs to be in order to not look foolish in 2013. It took me a few years to understand that, if only because the disinvestment of our society in R&D, academia, and anything with a focus longer than one quarter has reached such completion as to leave our society too imbecilic to have a square sense of what technology even is.

That doesn't mean a company can't be technological and VC-funded, but the "cool kids" sideshow isn't about true technology. It can't be. The VPs and Product Managers are all imbeciles and the engineers, while smart in an IQ-sense, are too steeped in bad practices to know anything. (The Founders are talented marketers but 80% are sociopaths.)

The VC-istan "It" crowd is not comprised of technologists, but of people who've found it advantageous to incorporate technological fetishism into their vapid marketing. The jokers in the in-crowd don't know anything, and the best technologists only tag along to their projects if they can get something out of it... and those sorts of managerial conditions (hands-off management, high autonomy, interesting projects and self-direction) don't tend to last for long.