The end of startups and rise of entrepreneurship

What a tendentious piece of writing! That common (single) mission isn't supposed to be a direction people get whipped towards, it's supposed to be a beacon for like-minded individuals to rally around and commonly support, it's supposed to be willingly chosen by employees in the moment of singing their contract. And they can also renounce the adherence to such missions at any time by resigning.

"it can give rise to a new kind of organization that actually does not care about “profit” in a standard definition of the world and frankly – no capitalistically run company will see it coming"

Reading this, for some reason I get the sensation that I'm being sold communism. We already have "kind of organization that actually does not care about “profit” in a standard definition of the world"; it's called "non-profit organization" and it does its job well enough, no need for October Revolution here. We have choices and we choose. Maybe the overall picture isn't pretty in all its aspects but what we have accommodates a broad range of our nature's peculiarities. When attempting to think of something better take that into account.

I stopped saying that I worked on startups around 2000 because the word had already become so hackneyed and sterile. I just say "I've started and built some companies" and let people make of that what they may. If they don't really know who I am that's fine.