The underlying ideas are not only correct, they're being actively validated in the increase in salaries for good programmers.
Then why do people complain about low wages and poor equity offers? Not everyone is a Google employee making $250k in salary + benefits.
But the key point in the essay is about making value directly, by making something people want. Has that somehow become a dated notion? Isn't it, rather, being validated with every single startup that enriches its value-creating founders?
Where are all of these startups that magically print money for their founders? All I see on HN are people grinding away on their MVPs (or pushing a landing page as their MVP) while we discuss the same hot-shot startups (Square, Twitter, FB, etc.) over and over again.
Then why do people complain about low wages and poor equity offers? Not everyone is a Google employee making $250k in salary + benefits.
But the key point in the essay is about making value directly, by making something people want. Has that somehow become a dated notion? Isn't it, rather, being validated with every single startup that enriches its value-creating founders?
Where are all of these startups that magically print money for their founders? All I see on HN are people grinding away on their MVPs (or pushing a landing page as their MVP) while we discuss the same hot-shot startups (Square, Twitter, FB, etc.) over and over again.