• Banzai51@midwest.social
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    1 year ago

    About the same time that Silicon Valley’s bullshit caught up with itself. It went from fake it until you make it to fake it until you’re caught. VC funding stopped being a means to an end and became the goal itself. Hard to produce with that mindset.

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      1 year ago

      It went from being a cheap place for passionate nerds to innovate to an expensive place to try to make it big in tech.

      There are a few places I expect tech breakthroughs to start coming from and none are in California. You just can’t afford to try in Silicon Valley in the same way you can’t afford to give your art a go in New York. Those doing it are betting so much and they have to put themselves under intense constraints. You’re probably better off buying a compound in rural Michigan or Minnesota and taking your time