It's sad, but in the winner-take-all era that has come about after the Reagan Era, self-promotion (even using extremely unfair advantages, such as a parent who knows VCs) wins out over restraint and even over decency. This has nothing to do with Nick; it's just the way times are changing.
I have no idea whether this is good or bad. It just seems to be how things are playing out. This is going to sound awfully cliche, but hate the game and not the player.
This may be wishful thinking, but we may be reaching a Singularity of Stupid, and perhaps there will be a Flight to Substance after the cool kids and VC darlings and celebrity investors get burned and their heads shrink a bit. I'd like to see the Flight to Substance and return to Real Technology soon. Curing cancer is a lot more important than another damn social media app.
Social media is the reality TV of startups. It's not common because it's good but because it's cheap, with "cheap" here defined in the truly scarce quantity: technical talent. Any idiot can do SM, which is why there's so much of it.
I have no idea whether this is good or bad. It just seems to be how things are playing out. This is going to sound awfully cliche, but hate the game and not the player.
This may be wishful thinking, but we may be reaching a Singularity of Stupid, and perhaps there will be a Flight to Substance after the cool kids and VC darlings and celebrity investors get burned and their heads shrink a bit. I'd like to see the Flight to Substance and return to Real Technology soon. Curing cancer is a lot more important than another damn social media app.
Social media is the reality TV of startups. It's not common because it's good but because it's cheap, with "cheap" here defined in the truly scarce quantity: technical talent. Any idiot can do SM, which is why there's so much of it.