A bit of truth.<\/p>\n
As the engineer and writer Alex Payne put it, these startups represent \u201cthe field offices of a large distributed workforce assembled by venture capitalists and their associate institutions,\u201d doing low-overhead, low-risk R&D for five corporate giants. In such a system, the real disillusionment isn\u2019t the discovery that you\u2019re unlikely to become a billionaire; it\u2019s the realization that your feeling of autonomy is a fantasy, and that the vast majority of you have been set up to fail by design.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
From “One Startup’s Stuggle to Survive the Silicon Valley”, Wired magazine, http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2014\/04\/no-exit\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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