Jeff Hammerbacher, CTO of Facebook, now CEO of Cloudera.
That said, actual product companies are making a comeback in Silicon Valley, and are using innovative new tech like 3D Printing, and there's some amazing work going on in Virtual/Augmented Reality as well (Occulus Rift, CastAR, Google Glass), - all physical products.
And lets not forget Tesla upending the world's perception of the economics of producing and owning electric vehicles.
While I agree with the sentiment about smart people wasting their potential chasing cash, I think it's only an intermediary phase before the next wave of "insanely great", life-changing products hits critical mass.
Lets not forget Tesla upending the world's perception of the economics of producing and owning electric vehicles.
Citation? The world's perception of Tesla is arguably: expensive, unaffordable, impractcle plaything for rich people. But yeah I would drive it if you paid for it...
That said, actual product companies are making a comeback in Silicon Valley, and are using innovative new tech like 3D Printing, and there's some amazing work going on in Virtual/Augmented Reality as well (Occulus Rift, CastAR, Google Glass), - all physical products.
And lets not forget Tesla upending the world's perception of the economics of producing and owning electric vehicles.
While I agree with the sentiment about smart people wasting their potential chasing cash, I think it's only an intermediary phase before the next wave of "insanely great", life-changing products hits critical mass.