Noam Chomsky – Startup Culture (2015) [video]
While of course there are startups that engineer novel and industrially relevant products, I have to agree that "startup culture" is indeed largely synonymous with "apps" (web, mobile, b2b, saas, marketplace etc.) and that this is, as he calls it, "narrow entrepreneurism".<p>"Narrow" given there is a vast global economy in need of hard engineering innovations - agriculture, mining, construction, energy, chemicals, biotech, manufacturing, machinery, vehicles, aerospace, science/discovery, environment/planet, telecomm, computer hardware, robotics. On the other hand apps, marketplaces, SaaS, AI, blockchain, RPA, most of the world doesn't really care about it and perhaps they shouldn't...