This would reinvigorate some of us who are jaded by SV's astounding lack of ambition towards actually solving hard problems as well.
I didn't become an engineer to crank out CRUD apps in some rock star's crazy DSL all day.
I didn't become an engineer to crank out CRUD apps in some rock star's crazy DSL all day.
Ventures like SpaceX and Tesla that have a long lead time and (at least in these two cases) are loss-making at the start probably wouldn't get YC-VC funding. Or at least they wouldn't get anywhere near the level of funding they'd need to get to profitability point.
I wager that for some of the really big world-changing projects we simply have to be willing to fund it as long as necessary, taking an extremely long-term view. And for this, VC funding is probably not going to be enough. Both Tesla and SpaceX needed to take in public (read: Government) funding to keep going.