Totally, gotta watchout for the echo chamber.
Ask HN: Hasn't the startup world become far too serious and dull?
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Re: Ask HN: Hasn't the startup world become far too serious and dull?
#12In a lot of ways, tech is just another business industry now. It's not the cool frontier it used to be.
We let the rentseeking businesspeople step in and control what used to be driven by passionate engineers in their garage.
Re: Ask HN: Hasn't the startup world become far too serious and dull?
#13I really hope it has not. I'm actually growing https://microlaunch.net, an innovative & gamified platform for startups, exactly for this same goal: create a product maker-friendly environment and redefine the link between startups, innovation, and makers.
Re: Ask HN: Hasn't the startup world become far too serious and dull?
#14Still waiting for Erlich Bachman to come back from his vision quest. Any day now. Until then, it's Gavin Belson's town...
Re: Ask HN: Hasn't the startup world become far too serious and dull?
#15Looks like the founder of rap genius passed away very recently. He attributed the way he acted to a brain tumor. "In March 2024, Moghadam died at the age of 41 due to complications from his recurrent brain tumor." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahbod_Moghadam
That’s honestly a bit heart-breaking I remember he was on some programming podcast years ago and is how I heard of genius.com
He seemed like such an interesting founder, with a lot of technical knowledge and big opinions…