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I love this post, because I feel exactly the same way. And maybe it's because I'm from Chicagoland and currently live here. I feel like often times, the major
by timjahn 15y ago
I love this post, because I feel exactly the same way. And maybe it's because I'm from Chicagoland and currently live here.
I feel like often times, the majority of startups in Silicon Valley are working on really cool ideas, apps, and solutions, but for problems that very few "everyday" people have.
And that's not a bad thing. Solving a specific problem for a specific (big or small) group of people is great.
But part of me wishes sometimes that more folks in the traditional Silicon Valley startup ecosystem would use all those resources to make real change in other parts of this world.
Yeah, that's probably naive.
After all, at the end of the day, it is business.
- alain94040 15y agoI spent 10+ years of my life working on technology that makes cell phone chips better and your processor in your laptop faster. But you never heard of that company, because it's obscure, hardcore tech that no media will ever cover (if you are curious, read http://www.eve-team.com/demos/linux_boot_demo.html http://www.eve-team.com/demos/linux_boot_demo.html) Now I work on fluff ideas, consumer Internet concepts. It's flashy, people get excited about the space. It probably has less impact. But it's more visible. I'm not the only one in that situation. Even within large companies like Intel, Microsoft or VMWare, the products that people discuss the most are not usually the ones that bring the most revenue, or impact more people.