Lisp has been around for a long time. If adopting Common Lisp was a winning move for startups, we'd expect to see many startups adopting CL and running circles

Lisp has been around for a long time. If adopting Common Lisp was a winning move for startups, we'd expect to see many startups adopting CL and running circles around their competition. The fact that we haven't seen that seems to suggest to me that that's not the case.