4 ms·

How is Soylent a tech company?

• jfengel 6y ago
  Its founder is a a software engineer and the product is targeted to the tech industry. Its key funding came from Andreesen Horowitz, a VC firm primarily investing in tech. It's not a "tech company" in itself, but it's heavily imbued with tech culture. The behavior of one person does not "show" the problems of an industry, but it does make for a case study. Soylent became prominent on Hacker News, and many people on HN espouse views similar to the ones expressed in the article.