I’ve felt the tech sector change over the past decade. The “Innovate or Die” model was bought out years ago, and replaced with “40% YoY Growth or Die”. With so much consolidation, companies are either too bloated, or too risk averse to find growth through good ideas. Instead they are opting for the much easier strategy of extracting as much capital as possible from any users who have come to rely on their platform. This kind of environment is terrible incubator for creative solutions.