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Re: After the end of the startup era

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Post by rhizome »

freehunter wrote: post #47
saralily wrote: post #41

> Big businesses and executives, rather than startups and entrepreneurs, will own the next decade; today’s graduates are much more likely to work for Mark Zuckerberg than follow in his footsteps This is a tautology and reflective of the mindset that produces articles like this one. There is only one Zuckerberg. Unicorns are by definition rare, and disrupting entrenched business interests is rare because they are entr…

Yeah this is another example of how SV exists in a bubble and can't see the broader world. Today's graduates are more likely to work for Zuckerberg than to follow him, as were yesterday's, as were the day before's and so on. It only seems like everyone is a founder because that's how it was in SV. It only seems like every stopped creating startups because that's how it is in SV. But like everything else in the world,…

I think the future is even starker, that todays graduates will be just as likely to work for Jared Kushner as Zuckerberg, and I'm pretty sure history supports this. That is, who under 40 manages the largest workforce? They'll probably keep doing that.

Re: After the end of the startup era

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Post by tyingq »

jayd16 wrote: post #71
hluska wrote: post #54

I try to be patient with Techcrunch, but seriously, phrases like this make me see red: > The market capitalization of Bitcoin vastly exceeds that of any Bitcoin-based startup. The same is true for Ethereum. The market cap of the US dollar exceeds that of any financial institution. What's the fucking point?

The point is that the success of bitcoin does not mean a huge windfall to bitcoin based startups. Reread the paragraph.

I suppose it depends on how broadly you define startup. Surely some drug dealers, online casinos, etc, are doing well. I believe Silkroad did $1B+ in sales.

Re: After the end of the startup era

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Post by majewsky »

cubano wrote: post #89
caust1c wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree the future is built on small businesses. But to have the most impact on the environment we could all just stop eating so much meat.

Why would we do that when are bodies are specifically evolved for eating both vegetables and meat? I, for one at least, consider along the millions of years that evolution tried a version of homo sapiens that couldn't eat meat, and it was selected against...why would we now attempt to overturn the apparent wisdom of that selection?

Quoting from the collective wisdom of HN here:

  Because it doesn't scale.

Re: After the end of the startup era

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Post by wavefunction »

devmunchies wrote: post #70
b4lancesh33t wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Travelling less is much more important. Skip that vacation to Europe or Asia if you really want to have an impact on your footprint. Just one such trip dominates the impact of eating meat.

> Just one such trip dominates the impact of eating meat. impact of eating meat for how long? one year? I know that going vegan for a year is better than getting an electric car.

You could do both though.

Re: After the end of the startup era

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Post by neya »

Ironically, you have a giant media house (AOL), one of whose important revenue streams is selling hopes of the startup world ("Startups, start here". [1]) through their Disrupt conferences, writing something like this.

My personal opinion - as long as there is a market demand and as long as you're a business fulfilling that demand, startup or not, whether the tech is accessible or not, it's all that matters.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/event-info/disrupt-berlin-2017/

Re: After the end of the startup era

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Post by jorblumesea »

This is a trend that's been occurring over the past 50 years in all business sectors. The conglomeration of everything, from healthcare to food creates a oligopoly where only the big players have a seat at the table.

Tech was just immune from it because of its immaturity and infancy of the technology itself. Now that its a mature business its being subjected to the same pressures and issues of any established industry.

In some ways it's just tech "growing up".

Re: After the end of the startup era

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Post by rhizome »

auggierose wrote: post #82
freehunter wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah this is another example of how SV exists in a bubble and can't see the broader world. Today's graduates are more likely to work for Zuckerberg than to follow him, as were yesterday's, as were the day before's and so on. It only seems like everyone is a founder because that's how it was in SV. It only seems like every stopped creating startups because that's how it is in SV. But like everything else in the world,…

I am not an expert in this, but SV has actually a great record on taking on super hard problems. It's just that Facebook is not one of them.

I think FB tackles hard problems, it's just that the hard problems they tackle aren't FB-specific so much as decades-old market research, interest-tracking, and adtech in the internet era, not to mention datacenter design and engineering. But none of these achievements require FB to exist as FB in any way more than a test bed.

Re: After the end of the startup era

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Post by xkcd-sucks »

hluska wrote: post #54

I try to be patient with Techcrunch, but seriously, phrases like this make me see red: > The market capitalization of Bitcoin vastly exceeds that of any Bitcoin-based startup. The same is true for Ethereum. The market cap of the US dollar exceeds that of any financial institution. What's the fucking point?

Starting businesses is outmoded, the new fashionable high growth thing is starting currencies?

Re: After the end of the startup era

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Post by vintageseltzer »

cubano wrote: post #89
caust1c wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree the future is built on small businesses. But to have the most impact on the environment we could all just stop eating so much meat.

Why would we do that when are bodies are specifically evolved for eating both vegetables and meat? I, for one at least, consider along the millions of years that evolution tried a version of homo sapiens that couldn't eat meat, and it was selected against...why would we now attempt to overturn the apparent wisdom of that selection?

I don't think they're saying we should stop eating all meat — just that it should be significantly reduced.

That's pretty much a no-brainer for our health, for the environment and to reduce the suffering of millions of animals at the hands of the industrial livestock industry.

Personally, I used to eat meat multiple times a day, and now I only eat it once or twice a week. It has really improved my life. I think everyone should try it.

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