3 ms·
I find articles like this pretty frustrating. There's tons of companies in Silicon Valley that are trying to do audacious things that people's mothers never did
by jdoliner 10y ago
I find articles like this pretty frustrating. There's tons of companies in Silicon Valley that are trying to do audacious things that people's mothers never did for them. They don't get much press coverage and that's fine, media outlets are businesses too so they need to write about companies that their readership wants to read about. But the fact that they then turn around and complain about the fact that all the companies on their radar are the same is outrageous. They're all the same because there's this huge selection bias applied by the fact that they only cover companies they think their average reader can understand. Which isn't a very wide variety.
- gk1 10y agoI fail to see a single original thought in this article. This same article could have been written 10, 20, 100 years ago, about the stupid ideas from those times. There is no shortage of stupid ideas and there never has been. (If you think those periods didn't have as many stupid ideas, it's only because of survivor bias.)
- deleted 10y ago[deleted]
- Chinjut 10y agoPerhaps 10, 20, and 100 years ago, it was also a tragedy that so much effort was directed toward the minor desires of the reasonably well-off and so comparatively little into addressing the needs of those with little disposable income.
- nickpsecurity 10y agoOne might say Uber and Airbnb, among most hyped, were counter-examples where poor travelers or workers got more benefit than they otherwise would in those sectors. I haven't priced these in a while so these examples might be good or bad. I just know there's supply and demand side opportunities here for lower classes.
- hudibras 10y ago>There's tons of companies in Silicon Valley that are trying to do audacious things that people's mothers never did for them. Can you name one?
- jdoliner 10y agoI mean sure. Apple - my mom never made me any electronics equipment Tesla - my mom never made me a car You can find many more by googling things like: Silicon Valley enterprise companies Silicon Valley hardware companies Silicon Valley med tech companies etc