Here is an alternative, unpopular (for the narrative like in the above post) hot take. Nothing is forever. Five years is a long time. People need motivation.

Here is an alternative, unpopular (for the narrative like in the above post) hot take. Nothing is forever. Five years is a long time. People need motivation. Enjoy and make use of things while they last. Nobody owes you anything. But you have options. You can have a business genius build a company that delivers great product forever without grinding employees into the dust, burning up founders and still outmaneuvering competitors. You can have no product or a company going under because founders have stretched them thin, burned out and went broke ruining their lives pursuing a good idea that morphed into a sunken cost. Or you can crazy pricing models justified by the desire to live like a VC LP while shipping a 3rd party API-dependent cute app. But without VC! Or you can have a VC-subsidized business that ships a product at ridiculously low prices, locks you in for some 3-5 years and then goes ballistic and becomes unusable. But it’s been five years of a very good run, FIVE YEARS. And then the next will come to take their place. Reading how five years is a short timeline for a low-cost-high-value product is wild. Now that’s some entitlement.