Startups aren't sexy anymore, and why we need to stop putting founders on pedestals

I'm reminded of Spodek's assertion in 'initiative' that there's an entertainment industry around entrepreneurship (Shark tank etc) which has as much to do with real entrepreneurship as dog shows have to do with owning a dog.

Maybe the problem isn't that startups aren't sexy. Maybe it's that they're so sexy there's a lot of money to be made selling a pornographic version.

It is worth dealing with the downsides of founder worship if it inspires more high IQ people to chose building a company over consulting or wall street job.

I couldn't stop laughing when I read “Most of us,” she said, “are just making something slightly better than what already exists.”
It's so true. Truly unique, original, and ground-breaking ideas/products/startups rarely happen anymore. Everything is a copy of something else.

Yup! We've definitely idolized the Zuckerbergs and Gates' of this world and idealized the startup life too. I don't think people think startups are sexy anymore or that you have to be particularly special to be a founder. As Ms. Taylor points out toward the end of the article, most founders are only making something better than what already exists. Nothing sexy or special about that.

Startups are only sexy when they have something useful in terms of generating a good amount of money, startups like building a robot that would literally do nothing are now facing failures. New generations do start their business but they quit after some short period of time because they think it will start generating revenue in 2nd or 3rd month its not like that we have to understand the concept of startup before starting it.

It's good that Founders want to innovate some Legacy Methods or Automate Processes but there is a limit to how much you can innovate & come up with unique ideas.
My main issue with Startups is that they don't care about their Employees & Any Type of Success gets to their Heads. Many Founders think that they are special & Employees are not any part of the Success.
Also, there is so much Copy Paste of Features that Places where the features are not relevant.
Now Founders are more Money Orieneted & not Human Oriented

Truth is in America and many other places, financial success is what is worshipped.

true that

Startups are actually a horrible way to make a living, but you wouldn't realize that reading the tech media.

Nah disagree, I want to be on the pedestal

Founders worship creates more new founders and businesses. There is nothing wrong with that. Humans naturally tend to worship other successful humans.

good

Nope. Too much people who are profiting from 'making startups sexy' for it to be obsolete.

There's private equity involved (BlackRock, BlackStone, etc.), there's VC involved (G3i), there's Angels involved (Naval, Sharran, Chamath, etc.), there's media networks, and a lot of other factors. Even governments have programs for promoting startups to promote regional development.

It's like the war economy. Not going anywhere.