Startup culture has a fake it til you make it problem.
In my journey as a 2x failed startup founder I meet many nice people, most of us were entranced by startup as performance theatre, occupying ourselves with every sort of entrepreneurial busy work except the harder work which would result in putting a product or service in front of customers, haunting an overpriced flexi-desk / office in incubator hell. And I met a few of the usual narcissists and sociopaths, scratching red in tooth and claw to become the Steve Jobs they knew themselves to be.
The only success I saw coming out of this system was an idea founded by some serious programming talent that had obvious shot at product market fit before they wrote a single line of code. Everyone else was just fooling themselves.
In my journey as a 2x failed startup founder I meet many nice people, most of us were entranced by startup as performance theatre, occupying ourselves with every sort of entrepreneurial busy work except the harder work which would result in putting a product or service in front of customers, haunting an overpriced flexi-desk / office in incubator hell. And I met a few of the usual narcissists and sociopaths, scratching red in tooth and claw to become the Steve Jobs they knew themselves to be.
The only success I saw coming out of this system was an idea founded by some serious programming talent that had obvious shot at product market fit before they wrote a single line of code. Everyone else was just fooling themselves.