After spending over a year on HN, I really have to disagree with assertions about "corporate bullshit" for one reason: Advertising. Look at how HN is inundate

After spending over a year on HN, I really have to disagree with assertions about "corporate bullshit" for one reason: Advertising. Look at how HN is inundated with "Show HNs" for everyone's new web app. Many of these people bootstrap their own company and can't afford advertising. They're all fighting for attention in a market saturated with novel apps (Instapaper for videos! another iOS photo sharing app!). Many of these apps create wealth, and many won't survive into next June. Now compare these tiny startups with any larger startup or corporation. Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare have a lot of users, and they need to build out bizdev teams to continue growing (marginal cost and all that). They need HR departments to build out those teams--now we're halfway down the road to internal hierarchies and politics. Ugh, corporate bullshit! However, these startups can also advertise and market like crazy and watch as their growth charts show exponential behavior. Traction and user retention are economies of scale. As much as we hate corporate bullshit, that bullshit lets a company grow enough to trivialize all those marketing + bizdev concerns. Otherwise, how can you advertise your wealth creation when consumers are too busy looking at Tumblr or tweeting to pay attention to you?