> There are other ways to get rich than by starting startups. Some of those do require you to exploit people. But startups are the most common way to become really rich, and if you want to start a successful startup, the key is not exploitation but empathy. What do users really want?
To have illegal hotels that then help keep a generation out of home ownership?
To have an exchange for cryptographic tokens that are used almost entirely for financial scams and organized crime payment infrastructure?
To have an online forum that made so many long-time contributors who built the content and appeal feel so betrayed, that often the top solution to a posted problem (you find in search) has been deleted in protest?
To have a non-profit spun off, ostensibly for the benefit of humanity, and attract talent and funding that way, then coup and rug pulled?
To have illegal hotels that then help keep a generation out of home ownership?
To have an exchange for cryptographic tokens that are used almost entirely for financial scams and organized crime payment infrastructure?
To have an online forum that made so many long-time contributors who built the content and appeal feel so betrayed, that often the top solution to a posted problem (you find in search) has been deleted in protest?
To have a non-profit spun off, ostensibly for the benefit of humanity, and attract talent and funding that way, then coup and rug pulled?
Other big successes?