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It depends on social pressure. For places like Silicon valley, the ultimate status symbol is being a founder, which inherently involves inventing (what a founde
by aripickar 7y ago
It depends on social pressure. For places like Silicon valley, the ultimate status symbol is being a founder, which inherently involves inventing (what a founder would call) important stuff. It's similar in Israel. Heck, there, startups are struggling to scale becuase everyone wants to be a founder.
- petra 7y agoI don't agree that founders are unique in inventing "important stuff". In reality, most important inventions, are efforts of large groups of people(that may be distributed across organizations), and most of it is work - not coming up with a "great" "vision". // Everyone wants to be a founder Well, you know the song "asiti": https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=x6ezbFpkGlw https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=x6ezbFpkGlw It's on Hebrew, but it basically talks about the Israeli tendency to always say "I did this, I did that"
- everybodyknows 7y ago>I don't agree that founders are unique in inventing "important stuff". Not what @aripicker claimed: "... being a founder, which inherently involves inventing ..." No mention of uniqueness.