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danellis
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Seed funding slows in Silicon Valley
> We all like to drink the cool aid and think that a startup's purpose is societal impact
No, we don't. Who do you think you're speaking for?
adjkant
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A lot of startups say explicitly that out of one side of their mouth while eating money with the other.
soVeryTired
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That sentiment is commonplace enough that
Silicon Valley
parodied it: "We're making the world a better place. Through constructing elegant hierarchies for maximum code reuse and extensibility"
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No, we don't. Who do you think you're speaking for?