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So silicon valley's real value is to coddle the needs of wishy-washy primadonnas as they attempt to find them self? When they succeed, we deify them and shower them with worshipful funding, when they fail its an exercise in letting what worked float to the top to build upon it for the next what-if?

I call bullshit.

Sorry, but the idea behind Oink simply wasn't very compelling.

I am actually turned off by the fact that Kevin managed to get investors in his own private sensory incubation tank which has no problem walking away from everything.

The mantra of fail often is being confused with continual failure.



Why hate on a guy who continually fails? That person is continually trying and learning.


That's exactly the consumer tech game.

Not everyone plays it but a lot do. It's the easiest point of entry for when you don't have the know how, lack experience, don't know enough people to do things such as launch rockets, design electric cars, optimize doctors, or achieve world peace.




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