Similarly, outside capital comes with the goal of maximizing returns — not fulfilling the vision. Dan Schmidt wrote about this in the context of the show, Silicon Valley : The vision of a cloud-based machine learning tool that uses their amazing compression algorithm turns into “the box,” because pressure from the outside leads to compromise of the

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One result of this past tech cycle was a view that companies needed to build hyper complex ponzi schemes of ambition in order to accumulate capital and be valued. This led to a variety of shooting stars that never realized their main goal.

Another view was an insane amount of value ascribed to hyper-narrow features masquerading as companies, leading... See more

They call it feature creep, but that's the polite corporate term that doesn't capture the madness of what actually happens. I've watched it so many times. At first, the product starts clean, elegant and focused. A small team poured their hearts into solving one problem really damn well.

But that's where it all just begins.

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