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Re:Seed funding slows in Silicon Valley by danellis on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @11:26PM (#14916747)
> We all like to drink the cool aid and think that a startup's purpose is societal impact

No, we don't. Who do you think you're speaking for?

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Re:Seed funding slows in Silicon Valley by adjkant on Thursday August 03, 2017 @02:02AM (#14917299)
A lot of startups say explicitly that out of one side of their mouth while eating money with the other.
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Re:Seed funding slows in Silicon Valley by soVeryTired on Thursday August 03, 2017 @05:18AM (#14918096)
That sentiment is commonplace enough that Silicon Valley parodied it: "We're making the world a better place. Through constructing elegant hierarchies for maximum code reuse and extensibility"
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