"When I started Kapwing in 2017, it was cool to be a tech entrepreneur. People looked up to techies." There are always some people who have hated whatever new

"When I started Kapwing in 2017, it was cool to be a tech entrepreneur. People looked up to techies." There are always some people who have hated whatever new people have moved into the SF Bay Area and taken over things since before written history. It's a perennial Gold Rush. Each round of new arrivals thinks that they're coming here to be a part of something new and exciting and that they care deeply about the area and making sure it doesn't lose its special qualities. The reality is that there was all this amazing stuff that happened 10, 20, 50, 100, 500 etc years ago, and in a way nothing is new. The "tech" industry of various flavors has had very mixed reactions at least back until the Luddites. Certainly in 2017 some people hated everything the "techies" were doing and wished they would stop. People were literally protesting Google Buses starting in 2013 as an embodiment of what tech was doing to destroy SF. [0] (I'm not saying I don't like "tech" - whatever that is. I moved to SF in '94 to be part of whatever zeitgeist was happening back then - the web, whatever Wired Magazine was hyping at the time, cyberpunk, raves, etc.... I'm sure the generation before me was not all happy about that, and I know people my age or even younger who would prefer not to have so many people with insane tech salaries and techno-libertarian ideals distorting the economy.) [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_tech_bus_protests https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_tech_bus_protest...