Great Founder Theory (2020)
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Great Founder Theory (2020)
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#2It's absolutely incredible to see someone take the Great Man Theory, something that has been greatly criticized in historical circles, and apply a tech bro bullshit veneer to it to pass it off as some new and amazing thought worth sharing with everyone.
Here's my own Great Founder Theory: I don't think founders matter nearly as much as people in Silicon Valley think they do. They're basically there to give VCs a figure head they can point to and claim some new effort to financialize and monopolize another part of our economy is backed by some brilliant ass hole they found somewhere who started this thing in their garage. There have of course been very intelligent and hard working founders, but imo whether your startup succeeds has much more to do with product market fit and timing than it does with the quality of the founder. Just look at what a shitheel uber had at the beginning.
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#4It's absolutely incredible to see someone take the Great Man Theory, something that has been greatly criticized in historical circles, and apply a tech bro bullshit veneer to it to pass it off as some new and amazing thought worth sharing with everyone. Here's my own Great Founder Theory: I don't think founders matter nearly as much as people in Silicon Valley think they do. They're basically there to give VCs a figu…
Hah, came here to post basically this. One of the clearest illustrations of what I call Silicon Valley Brain.
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#5> My answer is that a small number of functional institutions founded by exceptional individuals form the core of society
I stopped reading past this.
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#7I have to respect the grift. It’s so perfectly calibrated to its audience: essentially the people who the X account “VCs congratulating themselves” makes fun of, and a much larger group of their fans or hangers on (really often the latter cosplaying as the former). For that audience this is the perfect treat. A document like this really positions him well within that ecosystem.
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#8> My answer is that a small number of functional institutions founded by exceptional individuals form the core of society I stopped reading past this.
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I'm torn because I agree with your first principles, but not where they lead your thinking.