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Okay I'll take a stab at the TL;DR: The author posits that great startup ideas are like Godel's unprovable, but true statements. These startup ideas cannot be v
by sumanthvepa 6y ago
Okay I'll take a stab at the TL;DR: The author posits that great startup ideas are like Godel's unprovable, but true statements. These startup ideas cannot be valued using the experience one has with valuing existing successful companies. They tend to look like bad ideas in any valuation, but are in fact good ones. The search for such a startup ideas also cannot be formalised into a procedure (like say 4 Four steps to epiphany, or the Lean startup) Finally, author posits that the space of great startup ideas is infinite, even as the technology landscape grows ever more complex. There is no end to innovation. Godel's theorem in this article is used as a metaphor, and no more.
- andi999 6y agoThis is a great summary, of how the article should have been. I am not sure the author really only uses Godel as a metaphor, to me it looks more like he really believes that it is the same (or a consequence).
- sumanthvepa 6y agoI guess he is using Godel's theorem in a somewhat trivial way. One could argue that the statement 'There are an infinite number of valuable startup ideas' is a true but unprovable statement in the Godel sense.