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I quite disagree with the premise of this quote for the following reason. When commercial product is being built, external requirements and interests are impos

by vdaniuk 11y ago

I quite disagree with the premise of this quote for the following reason. When commercial product is being built, external requirements and interests are imposed on founders and their aspirations to create interesting/innovative software will be subverted by the need to compromise. However, the essay addresses this problem. The engineers have the opportunity not to take outside investments and run their companies as they see fit. I believe that those bootstrapped companies would bring more social value than startups who are restricted by the boards, investment agreements, valuations and competition in high risk, high yield markets.

s73v3r 11y ago
You're missing the point: They still would have to run the business. Meaning, not do what they set out in life to do, namely engineering. Where they are, they can pretty much just focus on the problems at hand and do research. All of the other crap is done for them.
- vdaniuk 11y ago
  As someone who transitioned from 100% business/marketing side to 25% business and 75% development, actually I am not missing the point. There are many upsides to running and owning a tech business and for some of the engineers those upsides can outweigh the negatives.