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Why aren't you starting a new venture yourself?

• joshu 16y ago
  That is an excellent question.
  • kalvin 16y ago
    If, hypothetically, you were starting a new venture yourself, what kind of change would you want it to make in the world if it succeeded?
    • joshu 16y ago
      One axis along which businesses find themselves has "direct utility" at one pole and "perceived utility" on the other. Perceived utility is stuff like sugary drinks, or pictures of attractive people, or whatever; we're drawn to like those things because of our psychology and evolutionary background. I don't mean to sound negative - if people like the things they can be good things. Like video games, for example. I think that no business or product exists at either extreme (delicious, for example, over-empowered people's need to collect things; video games are inadvertently good at improving reaction time etc) but I'm pretty sure anything that leans toward direct utility and is large is going to have a significant positive impact in the world. I think Google is a pretty shining example here. The things I like to build tend toward the "direct utility" side of things. Hopefully they will be large...