As someone outside the valley (but a fellow traveler on HN), this attitude of "personal brand" has always confused me. Are the problems being worked on so hard that genius defeats competition? In essence, are the incentives for people in Silicon Valley so misaligned that a person can open numerous unsuccessful companies and still have a positive brand?
When you say for builders to shut up, find a customer, and build--isn't that what was being done before? If so, how could this incentive setup of serial failure being rewarded be avoided?
When you say for builders to shut up, find a customer, and build--isn't that what was being done before? If so, how could this incentive setup of serial failure being rewarded be avoided?