I'm not, by any means, suggesting bubbles are a good thing. I'm saying they're a fact of life in this field, so people working in startups should know how to de

I'm not, by any means, suggesting bubbles are a good thing. I'm saying they're a fact of life in this field, so people working in startups should know how to deal with them. If you can maintain a level head in a bubble (ie, the opposite of the approach you heard in Ireland - and I often heard in Tel Aviv) you can survive it, and even gain from it. I'm talking about the startup engineer case, I don't know anything about the investor's case.