I think of it as: When people didn't know what to do in the 90's, they went into e.g. advertising or banking. They just wanted a job, advertising was big, see

I think of it as: When people didn't know what to do in the 90's, they went into e.g. advertising or banking. They just wanted a job, advertising was big, seems fun, let's do that. Now those kinds of people "get into tech because you can earn a lot". So you get people who focus more on what they can extract rather than the craft. They arrive, do a job, pretend to be value adders because it's good for bonuses, go home to do what they really want to do. I guess that's ok, it takes all kinds and it's a big world. But the passionate, the people who love to create and love to refine and want to contribute and make a mark, those are my people. I think they're more likely to be there when you're in the first part of a company's life, before the extractors arrive. Right now I work with many of the builders and it's just wonderful. I also think that as companies change, get more sluggish and require more paperwork, passion goes out the window and the organisational imperative drives the experience.