I think that's dramatically over-romanticizing the startup scene. > ""Hey, I've written this great thing that can change millions of people's lives. I'd like t

I think that's dramatically over-romanticizing the startup scene. > ""Hey, I've written this great thing that can change millions of people's lives. I'd like to start a company around it!" I've been pitched a lot of startups before, in San Francisco and elsewhere. I have never heard this line even once. The vast majority of founders (in SF or elsewhere) want only one thing: their big exit. They couldn't give two shits about changing the world, disrupting some huge evil industry, or anything like that. They want to get theirs, and any type of righteousness in their message is just posturing. To portray SF like it's some sort of haven for young people who want to change the world is grossly inaccurate. It's not like that in SF, it's not like that anywhere. Sure, once in a while you get something that genuinely seems to be a work of passion. Github is a nice example. For ever Github you have to wade through two dozen yet-another-photo-sharing-app, yet-another-social-location-mobile, etc etc, who are all in it for the me-too and the get-rich-quick. San Francisco is a very small number of people trying to change the world while a whole lot of other people ride along, posture a bit, and hope they get mistakenly swept along for the ride.