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My sixth year as a bootstrapped founder

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1071 points mtlynch | 1 comments | 16 Feb 24 15:07 UTC | HN request time: 0.207s | source
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marklubi ◴[16 Feb 24 15:37 UTC] No.39398429[source]▶
So good to see some actual Startup News on here. I miss the old days of this site when things were more optimistic and less click-bait.
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BadHumans[dead post] ◴[16 Feb 24 15:42 UTC] No.39398477[source]▶
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abfan1127 ◴[16 Feb 24 15:44 UTC] No.39398507[source]▶
in what sense is it getting worse? While there may be local minima, I'd argue that its the best its ever been. News has always been pessimistic because negative emotions are easier to trigger to drive attention which pays the bills.
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spencerflem ◴[16 Feb 24 15:46 UTC] No.39398529[source]▶
Whether the world as a whole is getting worse is debatable, but I think it's very clear that tech companies are
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WrongAssumption ◴[16 Feb 24 15:56 UTC] No.39398662[source]▶
Is it clear? Microsoft of old? IBM of old? AT&T of old? Juggernauts with abusive monopoly power that tech companies today could only dream of.
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1. uoaei ◴[16 Feb 24 17:11 UTC] No.39399867[source]▶
I'm getting visions of that New Yorker cartoon about shareholder value but it's just a techie in Allbirds saying "is it really worse, tho?"