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I blame venture capital for a lot of this. A bootstrapped tech company can keep making products for consumers at a modest profit. A vc backed startup has to gro
by stevage 4y ago
I blame venture capital for a lot of this. A bootstrapped tech company can keep making products for consumers at a modest profit. A vc backed startup has to grow and grow, so selling out their customers is just an expected part of that journey.
It sucks. I hate it.
Maybe we will see the rise of some label that companies might adopt, to signal that they are not trying to profit from what they know about you, they just want to sell you the product.
- Nextgrid 4y agoGrowth for the sake of growth has a (in)famous equivalent in biology: cancer.
- wildrhythms 4y agoWhile I think VC is a culprit of this phenomenon, look at established institutions like Microsoft, Lenovo... still injecting ads and bloatware for decades and laughing all the way to the bank. I think this transcends any recent trends in startup funding.