I don’t know if it’s me having worked full-time for nine organisations already (five of them for-profit #startups), the industry itself having changed, me getting old and grumpy, or a combination of all of the above, but too often now, the typical start-up attitude feels almost disgusting to me.

The jargon, the buzzwords, the grandiose goals, the productivity hacks, the hyped substacks or podcasts, the cheesy taglines, the obsession with “growth” and “disruption”…

I still love #tech and the #web, I think #software is still eating the world, and I believe in great organisations developing novel ideas with a net positive impact.

But “Silicon Valley”, which used to be a parody, became a docu-series with the passage of (little) time.

Perhaps it was always that way, and I’ve grown more mature. Or maybe things got worse.

Thoughts?