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points by Grombobulous 3 days ago | 0 comments
This is why recessions often lead to a burst in new companies being founded.

One of the experiences that stuck with my in my early career was when my coworkers heard talk of layoffs at their startup that was acquired by bigcorp, one of the first reactions was “maybe we should just do another startup.”

I was taken aback at how casually that idea was thrown around. They didn’t even have a specific idea, just the casual thought that they could just start another company.

[–] coldtea 3 days ago
>I was taken aback at how casually that idea was thrown around. They didn’t even have a specific idea, just the casual thought that they could just start another company.

That's how a lot of companies are made, even huge ones. Not everything comes from a specific focus, it's just "let's see what works to build a business that can make us money".

[–] pseudalopex 3 days ago
Many companies started with a general idea or a different specific idea. What huge companies started with no idea?
[–] Viliam1234 2 days ago
Some companies start with a temporary idea and later pivot to a new one.

For example, I know a few companies which at the beginning were just body shops, but the long-term plan was to develop their own projects after they figure out what exactly their customers need most.

[–] Buttons840 3 days ago
"MegaCorp clearly wants to buy out any competition, so we should just leave and build the same thing again."

And now you don't even have to use specialist knowledge, just describe the idea to AI and AI will implement it clean-room.

[–] abanana 3 days ago
It's the VC/Silicon Valley mindset. They want to be able to call themselves "entrepreneurs" and "founders"; the product has little importance compared to that. It goes some way to explaining why the vast majority fail.
[–] Grombobulous 3 days ago
They were engineers, to be clear. I didn’t detect any of the vibes you are assuming were in the room.

It was more like “we could just build something.”