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.
Jason Kottke@anildash Actually thinking about the team you're building or the people you're serving is at best a third-tier concern these days.
Anthony Sorace@jkottke @anildash Which is so bizarre. Maybe it’s from my Bell Labs exposure, where half the research model seemed to be “throw a bunch of smart folks together and something cool will happen”, but if someone handed me a few million dollars I know the first few people I’d want to hire, and we’d figure out the rest from there. The people are everything.