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This is clearly something written many people will have difficulty connecting with. I'm guessing it's easier for me because I've yet to see a startup out to pr
by crawfordcomeaux 5y ago
This is clearly something written many people will have difficulty connecting with.
I'm guessing it's easier for me because I've yet to see a startup out to prove the existence of human needs for thriving and committing to designing a business and culture with that level of awareness, or with the goal of creating an ecosystem capable of meeting all those needs.
And if startups and their VCs are all chasing something else besides the needs to thrive, then aren't they all sheep going after not-needs?
Where's the startup that's like "Human needs? Establishing what those are was the first thing we did when we had this idea because product-market fit is meaningless if we're literally developing a system that denies the existence of needs of the people working here by staying ignorant of them. That's organizationally and societally suicidal."
- crawfordcomeaux 5y agoTerrible things I'd do with that money: Fund the Sun Ra Arkestra to keep innovating jazz without catering to whiteness. Fund systems for giving to everyone's needs, hopefully undermining capitalism. Create a new currency by defacing old currencies with messages of gratitude and revolution.