Sorry, Sam, SV doesn't see much in the way of serious, powerful, valuable, important innovation. Or, with some high irony, the real builder of SV, the US DoD

Sorry, Sam, SV doesn't see much in the way of serious, powerful, valuable, important innovation. Or, with some high irony, the real builder of SV, the US DoD and aerospace, is the real, all-time, unchallenged, unique world-class example of innovation and in comparison the present SV is a bad joke. Sam, the rest of innovation is not all about atoms, SnapChat, PInterest, AirBnb, Uber, iPhone, Android, or Tesla. For Tesla, I predict that in a few years Tesla will have gone the way of just another fad, this one only for rich people. Why? The battery technology sucks. Thus, for the car, the range is too short and the charging time too long, especially when charging at home. And the battery durability sucks. One of the main problems with SV innovation is one of the first steps in innovation -- objective, expert, peer review of the crucial, core technology. Such reviews are standard and easy to get from the Ph.D. committees of the world's best research universities, the best journals of original research, and the NSF, NIH, and DARPA but not from SV, YC, etc. To SV and YC, technology is just routine software, often in, say, C++ or Python. Might regard the application of the technology as new as a business but not the technology itself. Net, for innovation and technology, SV and YC don't get even half way to first base. Hint, hint, hint: Information technology is about, right, information, and basically that's not about C++, Python, Tesla, or atoms and instead: And the candidates are, low gluten diets, Yoga meditation, low carb diets, following 10 top psychics, feedback from getting out of the building, a liberal arts education with a lot of attention to the great books, video games, funding the advantages had only by college dropouts, funding teams that arrive to work on skateboards, and powerful, valuable, high quality, original research in pure/applied mathematics. And the winner is (drum roll, please). Oops, sorry, my iWatch just went dead and I lost the answer. Sorry 'bout that. Let me know when SV is ready to read a math paper. I have one with a small typo and will place a bet with you here on HN, $1, that in the next 30 days no one at a SV VC firm or YC will be able to find the typo. Then we can move on to noticing some leading examples of L^2, that L^2 is complete, and how to use that as part of the crucial, core foundation to building a company worth, say, ballpark, $740 billion. Hint: Divide that in half and think a little. From all my time in pure/applied math in research universities, working on challenging US DoD problems, and in one CS lab, I was around nearly all quite bright people. Then I got to know about the SV information technology world and its version of innovation and did a big upchuck and, then, a big laugh. SV innovation? Smoking funny stuff in an echo chamber. Just where does SV get that really strong funny stuff it smokes? But, but, but, SV IT VC is making money for its LPs, right? Likely not very much. Or see http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2013/02/venture-capital-returns.htm http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2013/02/venture-capital-returns.htm But, Sam, surely you don't believe that there's any significant interest in innovation in SV IT, right? I mean, about innovation in SV, you were just being facetious, just joking, right? Sam, please tell me you were just joking. If you weren't just going for laughs, then SV IT is worse off than I feared.