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oh it's ok! they'll just become resentful embittered nazis

Pretty sure I saw stories like this during the crypto boom.

Also, assume a VC tweeting = lying.

I have this semi-formed idea that there is an optimism bubble growing in certain tech disciplines. My usual lane is design and "front end" stuff but I think what you're scratching at here fits in there too.

When I say "optimism bubble" I'm referring to the mistaken conflation of "technology" and "products" and how that leads to this warped perception of virtue because technology, not products, is lazily considered representative of progress.

What does this person mean, I ask facetiously, by "opportunity" and "generational companies"? Are they referring to the chance of being an agent of positive impact on the world or are they talking about the chance to be on the cover of Forbes?

If they are talking about being on the cover of Forbes, what do they think OpenAI is? A technology or a product company? If they want to make a positive impact on the world, what does the 2-3 year window represent?

Edit: forgot to tie up the bubble stuff

The bubble bursts when everyone learns the wrestling is fake, so to speak.

Or the bubble bursts when everyone gets exhausted from pretending the wrestling is real, so to speak.

I wonder how much it has to do, also, with the fact that YC has become an educational brand as powerful as some top schools. You already have the top school brand on your resume by virtue of dropping out of it, why wait another 3 years to add the next big educational brand

venture capital does some weird fucking things to your brain

I can’t fault anyone for switching away from a CS degree; a bunch of folks I’ve been very close with have had to drop their CS careers when they found out firsthand how racist and sexist their degree program and the field in general is. also, some of the best programmers I’ve worked with have had degrees in unrelated fields (the best one had a psychology degree) and were better off having not dealt with the bullshit that comes with getting a CS degree.

with that said, I’ve also met a very significant number of assholes who came in assuming they’d learn nothing, couldn’t handle not being the smartest person in the room, dropped out, and spent the next couple years grifting as a “startup co-founder”. these hustlers are almost always the worst engineers you can hire, because for them the hustle never stops — they have no learning process, because they already know everything.