Karl Bodethese pseudo free market libertarian tough guys are all "I shall prove my innovation mettle on the field of battle" until there's the slightest bit of competition, then they immediately get a full diaper
it's genuinely wild how we heard nothing but long winded platitudes on how innovative silicon valley was for like 20 straight years and it's all culminated in a bunch of the dullest, most petulant billionaires imaginable all just copying each other's version of a very basic chat app
RussianDeepStateSock@KarlBode I once worked for a promising gaming startup, and we had some cool ideas and at least 1 successful game.
The team spent a year designing new concepts and assets and basic architecture for a new game, then the founder hired a CEO and the CEO decided "chat apps featuring special emojis and designer clothing for 3d avatars" was more important than anything else and had us... shelve our game for this damn chat application.
Company folded 3 months later after a mass walkout, and we received our last paychecks a couple weeks after that.