But what about "move fast and break things"? What about early employee's equity? What about the billion dollar valuations? What about justifying 500k/year engineers' salaries to over-engineer things you can do with a boring web framework and a handful of servers?
Why would you ever consider running a legitimate, profitable, down-to-earth business when you can do the above instead?
This is also why I quit the startup scene and despise most of them (including some that I used to work at). I try my best to focus on local, real businesses. They might be legacy, you might find "uncool" technologies but most of them at least have a real product they sell at a profit without screwing anybody and the work-life balance is often better.
Why would you ever consider running a legitimate, profitable, down-to-earth business when you can do the above instead?
This is also why I quit the startup scene and despise most of them (including some that I used to work at). I try my best to focus on local, real businesses. They might be legacy, you might find "uncool" technologies but most of them at least have a real product they sell at a profit without screwing anybody and the work-life balance is often better.