A tech company wants to sell something.
A tech community stands for something.

Building something new. 🟪 Host: /venturecapital /adventures /theitinerant

They're just different kinds of structures, with different purposes.

Companies can achieve many things, but have their limits — not all goods in the world can be individually priced and sold.

I don't work *for* anyone. 

I work *with* people *for* a cause.

It's possible that you start as a tech community and end up as a tech company.

A tech entrepreneur starts with a purpose that gets lost along the way.

A tech community starts with a purpose that becomes bigger among the way.

“If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything.” 

A problematic idea when (as you point out) most people haven't thought explicitly about their values
farcaster://casts/0x...d4534a04a4