A better title would be "The End of software startups in Silicon Valley Is Nonsense". There are plenty of companies in the SV that will still be there when the

A better title would be "The End of software startups in Silicon Valley Is Nonsense". There are plenty of companies in the SV that will still be there when the software startups are gone. Also, behind the strawman arguments there are some hidden truths but they have to be rephrased to be interesting, e.g. software isn't easy but it appears to be easy so lots of people enter the field that shouldn't. Also, people should be working on harder things but not for the reasons discussed in the article.