Let startups die.
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I can’t wait for startups to die.Sure, I’m writing this on my Microsoft Surface Book 2 from a lively cafe in Budapest while staying in an Airbnb and tracking my activity with my Fitbit Aria. So yeah, I like the products of startups. But I still want them to die a miserable death.I believe the peak of American greed and #capitalism has found its golden child in the #startup culture, especially as it is peddled by Y Combinator and their ilk. I daresay I need not explain what makes startup culture the quintessential embodiment of the failed American Dream. Shrink the corporate timeline down to a decade (ship it!), give the masses what they want (that elusive product-market fit), and sell at the peak (IPO FTW!). Unicorn hunters.Startups make me sick, and I don’t think I’m the only one. The (...)