Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
Heh, I seem to have hit a bit of a nerve with my comments on hustleporn and positivity here last night To add to my take, the thing that bothers me is how like 2015 it seems, like we've learned nothing in the interim. By contrast, in previous tech cycles, it felt like archetypes evolved a bit each time.
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Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
Entrepreneurs fit the Shaw quote: "“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” But each generation tends to attract a slightly different species of "unreasonable person"
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Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
I think entrepreneurs can be thought of as "vintages" adapted to their times. The 1994, 2000, 2007, and 2014 vintages were all subtly different vintages of unreasonable, and in each case evolution was towards greater sophistication and gamesmanship. The 2021 vintage feels too close to 2014 and maladapted to its time.
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Jacob
@jrf
Do you have examples of entrepreneurs from each era? You're generalizing around ~30 years of business anthropology (I also think you're close to saying something interesting but maybe I'm just taking the bait)
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Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
nah, I won't name names though I have several in mind. I'll let this hang in the air as an unverified shitpost
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Ralph Old Dad
@withere
I can verify. I played and lost the wantaprenuer game, cannabis sector ‘14 - ‘16. Seduced by a combo of greed, fomo, hubris, social media etc. As i folded my tent is when I recognized the magnitude of my folly.
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