... doesn't make money." I heard this for years - from market leaders, from VCs, from people I respected. "This is a regulatory problem, not a technical one." "This is a feature, not a product." "People don't pay for idealistic things." <<Back story>> In 2019, my team and I went deep into Self-Sovereign Identity: wrote research papers, ran experiments, and found ourselves at the intersection of data, identity, and web3. Right at that intersection ...

... failure of foundational principles. OpenAI misses the point about what is truly beneficial for humans, while Anthropic seems to strive to keep that in mind. Anthropic's philosophers strike me as the rare kind of people who are idealists and pragmatists at the same time. Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @girik_7  (IMO, any of these companies are the best) It is just business. If they reject one "bad" offer, they will fall for something else :D Comment ...

... time.... Even if it improves their outcome, it doesn t matter unless they actually use it. That s the tricky part - figuring out if it s a real need or just something we (as builders / maybe idealists - think is valuable. Comment from Manu Goel(@manu_goel2): It is really based on what use case you are solving eg in our case the need was for a simple tool with zero learning curve and that can be used in the field ...

... wondering... if a company wanted to acquire someone's app or tool that was built via vibe coding, would it matter how it was built? Does the method of how it was built impact the valuation? In my idealistic eyes, I'd like to think it doesn't. As an acquisition is often much more than just the tech but also the user base, brand, and even team behind the product. If anything I think that acquiring a product that ... ... friend of mine who is working at 1752vc, the competitive advantage of software lies in the data and clients. Comment from steve beyatte(@steveb): I have a different take on this. Most acquirers are deciding between buy vs

... political polarisation between extreme pragmatists and virtue signallers. As a result, reasonable pragmatism doesn t succeed; it is simply sabotaged by the virtue-signalling cohort. This is why, in the West, we see growing domestic conflict between rationalists and idealists. Pessimistic attitudes stem from a form of cynicism that includes aspects of Stoicism. People feel they have no control over their lives, and those who lead often fail them. This drives the cynical attitudes we see today. As most ... ... stop giant corporations from breaking the law. It's just going to make it easier for them to get away with it or take advantage of consumers and their data. I'd much rather live somewhere with ethical companies versus