- It probably should have been obvious, and I guess it was to some of us, but this seems like the inevitable end point of building an economy around flashy startups whose chief strategy is to sell themselves to a bigger company before they run out of cash.
- i'm sort of shocked by how common this has become in tech — products with no good consumer or business use cases, marketed to no one in particular, with shocking price tags, primarily designed for the entertainment of their chief executive, all in publicly traded companies
- At least some of the tech startups of the 2000s had a product you could *imagine* someone wanting, for god's sake
