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What startups have provided lasting real solutions and value, not just capitalistic, in say the last decade?
by bmitc 2y ago
What startups have provided lasting real solutions and value, not just capitalistic, in say the last decade?
- pas 2y agoBeyond Meat is pretty neat. Ceph? (Inktank was founded in 2011 by Sage Weil and DreamHost, which then it raised 1M in 2012 from Mark Shuttleworth, then RedHat bought them for 175M in 2014. Seems like a nice startup stort, no? The project itself was started around 2004 by Weil at LLNL, and then he worked on it as part of his PhD still in 2007, then the work continued at DreamHost, probably because Weil is one of the co-founders of DreamHost.)
- tim333 2y agoOpenAI? (Founded 2015)
- sobellian 2y agoThis will be tough to answer because you've supplied a vague standard. According to the Unabomber, electricity is not a real solution. Where shall we sit on the spectrum?
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> What startups have provided lasting real solutions and value, not just capitalistic, in say the last decade Deel, Rippling, Redwood Materials, Convoy, Airtable, Anduril, Cerebral, Checkr and Cerebras were all founded since 2014. Pick one. We're currently seeing an explosion in creativity around satellites, autonomous vehicles (on the road, indoors and airborne), generative AI and biotechnology. Go back one more cycle and we have SpaceX, Tesla, Uber & Lyft, Moderna, Zoom, DoorDash and other giants that entered busy fields, survived the winnowing and basically created a new industry.
- Y_Y 2y agoDeel provides a solution to workers having too much time and patience, and the value of giving nice chunk of each salary for the pleasure of making payroll suck with some AI smeared on top.
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> Deel provides a solution to workers having too much time and patience Their innovation was abstracting away the complexity of cross-border hiring. Their impact is meaningful to the degree employment is.
- Y_Y 2y agoThey didn't innovate there! Safeguard Global and plenty of others were doing the same middlemanning for years before. Just because they interact with employment doesn't mean they're as important as the whole concept.
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> Safeguard Global and plenty of others were doing the same middlemanning for years before This is sort of like saying the iPod was a better Walkman. Yes, you could functionally do the same thing. But no, it wasn't as easy which meant it wasn't as frequently done. (And as a result of pressure from the upstarts, payroll across the board became smoother.) > Just because they interact with employment doesn't mean they're as important as the whole concept Nobody said that. I said "their impact is meaningful to the degree employment is." To the people whose roles exist on account of platforms like Deel, their existence is meaningful.
- Y_Y 2y agoI don't like Deel, but you do.
- JumpCrisscross 2y agoNo, I hate pretty much all payroll processors. I also hate most IDEs, that doesn’t mean I don’t see value in them.
- Y_Y 2y ago
- callalex 2y agoWhatsApp
- ganeshkrishnan 2y agosolutions and value inherently become capitalistic. Can you quantify what you mean by "provided value"?
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> Can you quantify what you mean by "provided value"? I took it to mean ignoring companies in sales & marketing or FIRE (finance, insurance, real estate), as well as focussing on the effects of a company's products and services versus their valuation.