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The point, really, is that SV guys may know some cool tech (although with SV's chase for the next shiny JS-frameworked AI-based noSQL-stored , whatever else is
by Fins 9y ago
The point, really, is that SV guys may know some cool tech (although with SV's chase for the next shiny JS-frameworked AI-based noSQL-stored , whatever else is trendy now-thing it is arguable if that tech is any better than tech people in saner places know just as well) -- but they have no idea what to do with it to solve any real-world problems; because they don't live in the real world. So they come up with Juiceros, $600 "smart" locks, app-based gas delivery. Not even First World problems, that's like Zeroth World problems.
Unless you think the VC-fed bubble can grow indefinitely, it is SV techies who need people from the real world. Not necessarily the other way around.
- ghettoimp 9y agoFair enough. A juice machine will not automate farming. But is not SV also the home of companies like Google, Apple, etc., that make real, cutting edge stuff? (And lots of unsexy companies doing boring work too, nevertheless with real customers). I think it’s fine to give credit to farmers and the insights they have. But SV has a great deal of unique skills, and casting them as somehow unable to solve real problems seems, to me, quite unrealistic.
- Fins 9y agoI am trying to think of anything worthwhile Apple had ever delivered that was actually their idea, but somehow fail... Sure, there are companies that make real, cutting edge stuff in SV. As there are in other places. But SV has far more noise that just would not even appear any any saner part of the world. Although I would really question whether Apple does (or ever did) anything cutting edge that wasn't... eh... borrowed from somebody else. But really, what unique skills does SV have? Chutzpah isn't a skill, after all.