A palpable feeling that the party is over in the Bay these days—not that there’s no more VC money (there’s more than ever) but that there’s nothing to build except dull B2B SaaS apps.
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In retrospect, blockchain-mania was a coping/denial method for the exhaustion of a frontier
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Nobody seems to have fun playing with new toys anymore. The newest toys like VR also cost too much instead of being free. Free toys has been a big part of SV’s frontier ethos. Crypto had a “free money” toy aspect, but it was too valuable to play with by the time it got easy
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i don’t think it’s possible to build a successful consumer software company ever again the mainstream view has become irretrievably tainted
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the upside ofc is now you need to be in creative circles to play with cool new toys
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This is a real problem. Reflected in geography. SF is a shithole, peninsula is a desert, east bay is one loud political derp. South Bay is just work. A dead player. LA seems more alive now.
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brutal.
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“Next big thing” hype has begun to cling to things with visible issues for adoption _because_ they’re (temporarily) irrefutable. Troubling tendency.
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