Comment by TZubiri
2 days ago
Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel have talked about a similar phenomenon applied to YC and startups in general. It seems that early on it was a weird and nonconformist career move, but now it has become something that is done out of the same conforming impulse that going to school or working at a big firm mean to an individual in society.
Before when you had a startup it was because you had a passion and an idea.
Now the passion is the idea of the startup and a big exit.
Totally different groups of people.
Tech startups aren't a great example.
Tech improves and stabilizes. Always will.
Startup ideas back then were actually useful bleeding edge work.
Now it's all git pull and import the world with a languages package manager; no more need to optimize and normalize low level code.