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It's hard to get excited about these potential startups. Most of these ideas are not going to make my life any better in a major way and yet the author claims h
by atomical 8y ago
It's hard to get excited about these potential startups. Most of these ideas are not going to make my life any better in a major way and yet the author claims he's excited by "big, scary problems."
- codingdave 8y agoI'm not excited by them either, but it is his money, not mine, so I don't really see that my lack of interest is relevant. If those are the topics he loves, and he wants to fund them... more power to him.
- atomical 8y agoYes, no argument that it is his right to do what he wants with his money. I'm thinking about it in the context of Tyler Cowen giving smart people money for moonshots. In his book Complacent Class he touches on how there are less big ideas now and that is leading to stagnation.
- Fomite 8y agoI was interested when he mentioned infectious diseases (I'm an infectious disease epidemiologist, there there are lots of stories I can tell about what I find interesting, but I was curious from a funder's perspective), but the list was...somewhat less light-the-world-on-fire.