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randusernametoday at 4:52 PM3 repliesview on HN

My observation is simply that tech leaders misinterpret rewards from the market in conquering some abstract representation of a facet of a domain with conquering the domain itself. Then they become egomaniacal.

Did you conquer commercial real-estate ushering in the future of work and society, or did you build a handy scheduling app?

Did you have a neat idea for an online community or did you revolutionize human connection?


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zug_zugtoday at 5:21 PM

+1 .

I think it takes a certain type of mental or emotional deficit to forfeit all of your free time and the majority stake in your company for funding for a tiny shot at hitting a grand-lam.

"Not everything needs to be a platform". I remember a 10 person company that did translation dispatch for medical needs in California. And the CEO was insisting we needed to someday "become a platform."

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nxnxnxddtoday at 8:38 PM

We are the "...whatever gets us $2m seed..." layer for the AI of the future of finance.