Comment by bcantrill

I have never seen such cognitive dissonance here at HN -- which I feel is really saying something! As an SVB customer who had to wire payroll on Tuesday, our perspective is naturally sharpened, but I found the lack of empathy here over the weekend galling. On the one hand, this is understandable, and Silicon Valley has done much to earn collective distrust. On the other hand, this is emphatically not all of us: many of us have been outspoken about our disagreements with the techbro culture, and have endeavored to create companies that are exemplars of what we want to see in the world. Speaking personally, I spent a lot of time DM'ing people privately who were saying absolutely outrageous things online, and almost uniformly hearing back: "No no, not you -- I love what you're doing." Well, if you want to see startups solving hard technical problems we need to have some real talk about how that has to be structured financially -- and maybe stop tweeting images of guillotines when our employees are anxious about their next paycheck?