Consider that you may be underestimating the tacit knowledge that a HNer typically has. The majority of large SV corporations beyond Google/Facebook do not mak

Consider that you may be underestimating the tacit knowledge that a HNer typically has. The majority of large SV corporations beyond Google/Facebook do not make much sense to me. Dropbox? Why not operate your own server? Apple iphone? There existed separated out telephone/camera/other technology with superior characteristics for less money. Many many jobs and companies exist because the barrier to entry is too high for most people, even though to insiders their tasks seem ludicrously straight forward. Dropbox and Apple are just an abstraction layer. Or to put it the way I heard it on Reddit: "I went to fix some tech issue with the office computers. They're all 50-something boomer gen types who treat being outside of their comfort zone on their laptops as if they were retreating into a radioactive wilderness. I rebooted all the machines. They worked. They looked at me as if I were a wizard."