>Is anyone else unimpressed with the ideas being funded? look at Work at a Startup and it is just new web frontends on existing industries.
If there's money basically just lying all over the ground, why wouldn't you pick it up?
If there's money basically just lying all over the ground, why wouldn't you pick it up?
You can also just not do a shitty job of modernizing an old thing, and end up creating a product like Netflix that front-end devs fawn over, learn from, and emulate. It doesn't have to be uninteresting.
>just new web frontends on existing industries
The gig economy is just some subset of that.
In reality, 'just new web frontends on existing industries' describes the majority of the demand for software development right now. It's not good or bad, though some of the actors and some of the businesses will be good or bad. It's not boring or interesting, though some of the applications and implementations will be boring or interesting. It just is.
Out of all the VC money raised in 2019 how much was for this and how much was for things like Quibi, We-Work, gig economy, etc. ?