There's some meta-point here to make. I don't understand it well enough to articulate it, but I'm going to try. Start with the acquisition of dev bootcamp scho

There's some meta-point here to make. I don't understand it well enough to articulate it, but I'm going to try. Start with the acquisition of dev bootcamp schools and the emergence of these schools in general. They are very SV-esque. The funding. The founders. The aesthetic. There's obviously a link via teaching programming and preparing people to work in startups but fundamentally these are more like schools than tech companies. Why are they seem like tech companies? Tesla is a car company. Also SV-esque. So here's the poorly articulated meta-point. Technology has changed a lot in the last decade or two in ways that are relevant to many industries and many products. Schools. Banks. Hotels. Ovens. Even just the information people have available about products is very different. The slightly above average consumer has information available about fishing rods or ovens is very different. A motivated buyer of an tablet has access to a lot of objective information and the ability to make a far more rational choice. Compare that to buying toasters or fishing rods. The average person walks into the store. The sales person might seem knowledgeable. But ultimately, brand matters more than anything and that is a very long feedback loop. These days, it's a lot easier for a new product with a genuine improvement to win. Between all these effects, I think there's room for radical changes to a lot of products.