I don't know. When you look at the early days at companies like Tesla, SpaceX, Apple, Google, (even all these companies in the mid 2000s) they were absolutely about making money but by truly moving their industries forward by inventing new things at every level.
And they attracted truly world class talent in spades. But now most of these companies (save for maybe SpaceX) are so big that they must have tons of bozos that just want to move profits higher, keep the lights on, and get better performance reviews.
And many of those extremely talented people that moved things forward either retired, or do the revolving door of doing a startup, getting acquired, leaving, doing another startup, getting acquired, or became angel investors while they just chill.
Engineers like Paul Buchheit, Bret Taylor, Joe Hewitt... the brothers that did Google Wave and Google Maps.
Nobody is blaming them for where they are now, they've earned it.
I am just saying that I don't know where the equivalents of today are. Please, please tell me they aren't all working on some crypto ponzi bullshit.
