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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: 0.215s | 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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1. jrockway ◴[16 Feb 24 17:18 UTC] No.39399962[source]▶
Yeah, I mean, these companies are at the end of their "startup" lifecycle and are now just ordinary big companies that exist to chill and produce dividends. When you hear "Amazon", think "IBM". When you hear "Apple", think "Coca Cola". When you hear "Google", think "Goldman Sachs". All of those companies make an enormous amount of money but haven't done anything interesting in 50 years.

There will be new startups that eclipse all of these companies in interestingness. The one for the next 20 years is probably OpenAI.