I can't speak for investors, but I've been burned more by horrible startups-- as an employee, so more than any investor ever could be-- because I was some combination of naive and falsely desperate (I have a strong work ethic, and that sometimes impels me to work stupidly hard) and I'm fucking sick of most of these goddamn dreams. Bait-and-switch hiring is the worst. If I lie to get a job, I get fired-- and I should. But if a company engages in bait-and-switch hiring because "priorities changed" and I leave them, then I'm the asshole "job hopper". Fuck that.
Let's talk about substance. Not these dreams, most of which are impractical and laughable. I don't want to waste another year of my life implementing some wanker's dream in the hope that he'll one day throw me a bone (a real title, investor contact) so I can be on the other side of the table, lying to naive smart people in their 20s in order to get them to ruin their lives and relationships in exchange for 0.02% of something because they aren't smart enough to realize that token equity doesn't make them real business partners.
I'm sick of this nonsense. Why is our generation stuck in VC-istan instead of working on things that actually matter?
This whole ecosystem is built on selling dreams to clueless young people of extreme talent and dedication (like me, except I'm not young anymore; thanks assholes for wasting most of my 20s) who have no idea what they're worth yet. I can't speak about "most" but a great many founders that I know well are fuckheads (because the requirement of VC connections selects heavily in favor of assholery) who have no lack of skill already in selling vacuous dreams and making empty promises. Let's not make these lying fucksticks any better than they already are at misleading people.
Let's talk about substance. Not these dreams, most of which are impractical and laughable. I don't want to waste another year of my life implementing some wanker's dream in the hope that he'll one day throw me a bone (a real title, investor contact) so I can be on the other side of the table, lying to naive smart people in their 20s in order to get them to ruin their lives and relationships in exchange for 0.02% of something because they aren't smart enough to realize that token equity doesn't make them real business partners.
I'm sick of this nonsense. Why is our generation stuck in VC-istan instead of working on things that actually matter?
This whole ecosystem is built on selling dreams to clueless young people of extreme talent and dedication (like me, except I'm not young anymore; thanks assholes for wasting most of my 20s) who have no idea what they're worth yet. I can't speak about "most" but a great many founders that I know well are fuckheads (because the requirement of VC connections selects heavily in favor of assholery) who have no lack of skill already in selling vacuous dreams and making empty promises. Let's not make these lying fucksticks any better than they already are at misleading people.