There are a couple of possible points in this article. One is bemoaning the quality of the problems (not the solution) attacked by startups. Is the startup cu

There are a couple of possible points in this article. One is bemoaning the quality of the problems (not the solution) attacked by startups. Is the startup curing cancer? Or enabling a more advanced form of ironic hipsterism? Of course curing cancer is more important. That doesn't mean Lolcats fails to make the world a better place. Another is that people in startups are delusional in thinking they are solving difficult problems. Maybe, but they are taking risks and it seems innocuous and may be even helpful to be slightly delusional on that point. Finally the metaphor of a moon mission is telling. Landing on the moon, was hard, but it didn't create a sustainable business around space flight. In fact by some measures space flight went backward for some time. In the 90's I was at Draper Laboratories and remember a literal rocket scientist saying it would take more than 10 years to put a man on the moon again. (He was saying this while complaining about milspec components.)