[merger]

This is, imo, what is wrong with startup culture.

What is the "game"? Are we trying to build great products to "change the world" (aka another anon msging app or "Uber for X") as so many proclaim or are we just here to get rich quick - adopting the previous generation's mantras to fit in and get funding.

Why are you here? Why did people come in the early ninetees? We should live our rhetoric and stop mostly aiming for money. Sometimes they go hand in hand but what is our primary motivation these days?

Sorry this is not aimed at your response in particular, I just think we as a whole have lost our way and our former identity with startups becoming the new Wall Street.

EDIT: made less ranty

[zby]

It is useful to know the current rules before you transcend them.

And maybe I used the wrong word - rules suggest something positive - maybe I should say 'mechanics' or something.

Take Machiavelli - did he make politics worse by describing how it works?