You're Not Allowed to Criticize Startups, You Stupid Hater
I think that&#x27;s the point of the Valley, isn&#x27;t it? That you can try to do something stupid and people will give you the benefit of the doubt? Idk about you but I made $6k off AirBnB last quarter, which was nice, so I&#x27;m not complaining. That&#x27;s a big obvious one, but I could probably list 20 others from the area that have affected me in a positive way. (My point being that sometimes something great comes out of what seems dumb, as is well known.)<p>I don&#x27;t disagree at all that serious looks at what went wrong are very, <i>very</i> useful to everyone else, but I personally <i>like</i> that Silicon Valley is a sort of safe space for experimenting with dumb ideas where people won&#x27;t make a big deal out of it if one or more of your ideas don&#x27;t work out.