This culture has been riding a wave of innovation, a wave driven by big chip companies (e.g. Intel, NVidia, Arm), big SaaS companies (e.g. Amazon, Microsoft, Go

This culture has been riding a wave of innovation, a wave driven by big chip companies (e.g. Intel, NVidia, Arm), big SaaS companies (e.g. Amazon, Microsoft, Google), big content / ads companies (e.g. Facebook, Google), big hardware companies (e.g. Apple, Samsung, recently Google and Microsoft) and big software companies (e.g. Apple, Microsoft, Google). From that big farm of company-flowers which live for only a couple days, founded on the most fragile of practices, only a handful actually produce some service that has any interaction with the general public, and these businesses' most innovative thing was to app-ify a thing that we used to do day to day (which I do not look down upon, but it's no "innovation"). Examples are Uber (however controversial), AirBnB, Etsy, etc., if we exclude those who feed themselves exclusively on users' private data (Facebook, partially Google, Twitter, etc., but these are not businesses whose customers are the general public, their customers are the ad publishers).