Anil DashI’m eavesdropping (well, they’re so loud I can’t ignore them) on two young startup guys at this coffee shop, a version of a conversation I’ve heard a million times. But what’s striking vs 10 or 15 years ago is… almost nothing they’re talking about is the tech. Everything is financial engineering and how to hustle the ecosystem. Nothing about products or even markets and competition, all fussing about banks and crypto and VCs. Explains a lot about my fatigue over the industry in general.
Jake 
@anildash
Isn't that the way it's always been? I don't really think of any of the big "tech" companies as tech companies, except for maybe Apple. Google, Facebook, Amazon and their ilk are market manipulators. For most of my career I've heard people talk about becoming the next Amazon or similar. It's disheartening because Amazon's innovation was shutting down competition, not mail-order (Sears did that a hundred years before). This overheard conversation is just being more honest about the process.