@resipsa

haunting quotation! i recently read "Everything I Know About Business I Learned from the Grateful Dead" by Barry Barnes, and have been thinking about what it means for a tech project to be "ambitious enough" as to be "venture-scale" today. the prevalent framework as a downstream effect of the quote you cited seems to be that it is not enough to aspire to make a lot of money, but a project also has to aim to eventually make all the money there is to be made in its TAM. this bias informs a lot of the tech industry's decisions on values/missions, resulting in outcomes that may well be beneficial to bottom line but perhaps net-detrimental to how society progresses over a longer horizon. (i should pause now to think about how naive i sound)

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