I think that the startup culture and everyone wanting to be a tech billionaire kind of changed the amount of midlevel companies. Most of them get acquired by the big ones at one point - or aren't able to compete with them technologically. Everything gets absorbed into blobs of enterprises that do not give a single damn about the individual customer.
The ironic thing here is that this goal, being absorbed by corporates, is what startup exits are about.
And honestly, I don't understand it. I want to build something that matters. Morally and ethically, not financially.
I want to build a legacy, not some zuck or bezos weekend shopping item.
For a lot of people, the reward is money. Not legacy. Not vision. Money. Uber was built for money. Facebook was built for money.
The reason buy-outs are more common is because the tech giants have gotten large enough to offer so god damn much money that very few people have enough non-monetary drive to continue the risk. Incentives affect actions in a dose dependent manner.
> I want to build a legacy, not some zuck or besos weekend shopping item.
Yeah, keep that view and you'll succeed. Beware of: children, relationships that expect things from you, anyone that isn't within your reality distortion field.
I'm with you. I guess your in your twenties. Me, early thirties. It does get harder to say no to everything everyone around you is doing successfully, for moral reasons.
Zuck/bezos and your kid stops getting bullied at public school...
Also: money buys legacy. Bezos and zuck can scrub the web of their wrongdoings(not that there are any) with 0.00000001% of they're stash.
> Yeah, keep that view and you'll succeed. Beware of: children, relationships that expect things from you, anyone that isn't within your reality distortion field.
Why the sarcasm? Did I offend you?
If I don't stand up for my own values, am I not a fraud when I try to teach a kid what's good and what not? Would you rather live in a world where everyone gave up because the hurdles were too hard to overcome or live in a world where people stand up for their ideals and work for them?
I mean, we as "tech guys" have the luxury of being able to have work available wherever we go, and we can live off it very much above average when it comes to income. You can still live a good life with a family and working part-time...and you don't necessarily have to drive a Tesla to be happy.
I do realize that somewhere along the line we all make compromises, for whatever reasons. But when I'm in my death bed I wanna tell my children about what I fought for, and being able to tell them about my social ideals beyond capitalism or an "influencer life" and about what I imagined, what I thought the world could be.
Wasn't sarcasm. More like an effort to prepare for worst, while still hoping for the best. Sorry I didn't make it evident that I actually do agree with all of your sentiment.
The ironic thing here is that this goal, being absorbed by corporates, is what startup exits are about.
And honestly, I don't understand it. I want to build something that matters. Morally and ethically, not financially.
I want to build a legacy, not some zuck or bezos weekend shopping item.