The Silicon Valley Founder Meat Grinder

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A few years I met a guy, let’s call him Jim, who was trying to break in tech by going to a bootcamp to become a developer. In the meantime, he worked as a bartender and had been living off the support of his girlfriend, who was from a well-off family and Jim was her trophy boyfriend. He approached me because he was really into startups and wanted to become a tech entrepreneur, and make the big bucks. His motivations notwithstanding, he was currently struggling with a routing issue in his food delivery app project, and asked for my help, which indicated to me that Jim is years, probably decades away from fulfilling his billion dollar startup dream. After helping him debug it, we exchanged contacts and kept in touch.

The new golden age of software development has arrived

Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

If you ever had the wacky dream of running your company like a big tech firm, where all the tooling is proprietary and written in-house, you’ve never been closer to realizing it. We’re truly in the “if you can dream it, you can build it” phase of software development. Just look at the number of commits in Github in the last months! Everyone and their dog can code now, writing code is cheap. Every possible combination of solved problems can be mixed to solve another problem, and it can be done in parallel, with the help of AI.

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The Silicon Valley Founder Meat Grinder

The new golden age of software development has arrived