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Right — I totally understand why things are the way they are using the tech industry startup model. But using that model is relatively new, and adopting it not a prerequisite to starting a tech business, even if that’s the only way people do it these days, generally. Becoming a monopoly immediately in some market is the goal of someone that wants to become the monopoly immediately in some market. It’s neither a requirement of, nor mutually exclusive of having a good idea that you want to turn into a business. That business goal might be easier in technical businesses, but it doesn’t seem to make better or more sustainable companies. “That’s the way it is done” is usually the worst reason for doing something. It doesn’t mean it’s bad, per se, but it definitely doesn’t mean it’s good.


Agreed, but it distorts the heck out of it for everyone in tech trying to do anything else. Salaries is just the most obvious way.




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