Startups aren't (and have never been) about the hacker ethos of doing things just because they're intrinsically cool and interesting. There is a small bit of o

Startups aren't (and have never been) about the hacker ethos of doing things just because they're intrinsically cool and interesting. There is a small bit of overlap (as in a Venn diagram) between the spheres of "doing things that hackers find technologically cool" and "doing things that make a lot of money." That small area of overlap is where startups are. The vast majority of hacker-cool material isn't (and has never been) in that startup slice.