The problem with Silicon Valley
Written on June 29, 2008 – 7:26 am | by admin
It is unfortunate that I am employed in the high-tech sector because I have to hear about Silicon Valley on a daily basis. The main issue is that the people and companies housed in the area that has become synonymous with high-tech innovation are really, really stupid. The problem with Silicon Valley is that even though some of the engineers there are smart people, most of them aren’t but they think that they are. Reading the leading technology blog TechCrunch is a prime indication of the lack of talent and innovative ideas in Silicon Valley.
A recent startup covered yesterday on TechCrunch is Posterous which is essentially a blogging platform that allows users to post by sending email. This is what passes as innovation these days! A service that more established outfits such as Google’s Blogger have offered since forever as nothing more than just another feature but not as the main feature. It should be, of course, no surprise for any of us that Posterous is a Y-Combinator startup. Paul Graham’s Y-Combinator has produced an unbelievably high number of rubbish Web 2.0 companies with no hope of ever becoming anything more than the day’s darling for TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington.
Silicon Valley is in a sad state at the moment and I don’t see it getting any better in the near future. Maybe one day all these untalented and moronic people will move away and allow real entrepreneurs with innovative ideas and business plans to take over. One can only wish!
Tags: innovation, Posterous, Silicon Valley, TechCrunch, Y-Combinator
One Response to “The problem with Silicon Valley”
By Sachin Agarwal on Jun 29, 2008 | Reply
We’ve worked very hard to make posterous the best file sharing and blogging platform out there. We don’t think email is just a feature for a blog, but it’s the best way to publish online. No other service has the email publishing capabilities we do.
But it goes beyond that. We are building a blogging platform that everyone will want to use. We want it to be open and customizable. We want to push your content to other services so you email once, publish everywhere.
The platform we built with no registration required, easy and clear publishing and editing, makes us far easier to use and much more approachable for people who have never blogged before.
We have already had many people start their first every blogs on posterous, and many have switched their existing blogs to us.
The way posterous is designed, posting becomes second nature, it’s a knee jerk reaction because you just compose an email. I think this is a pretty big deal.
Thanks for the comments. Please try us out and let us know what you think!
-Sachin