The Trouble in Startup land

>>"Why do these smart, quantitatively trained engineers, who could help cure cancer or fix healthcare.gov, want to work for a sexting app?"

These are the questions.

Maybe its the money? Engineers see investors throwing millions at sexting apps, yet not as much "sexiness" around curing cancer (which in the long run is a LOT more sexy, IMO).

It is weird though. All these smart ass kids you go to school with, and then they're like

"We're starting a startup"

"Cool, what does it do?"

"It's a photo sharing app that allows you to share photos and meet people with similar interests."

(YAWN!)

Or maybe it's a laziness factor. Why solve the worlds big problems when you could solve #FirstWorldProblems and get paid pronto?

It's a self-perpetuating problem though, because in the long run its probably gonna bite our tech-hipster generation in the ass.

Maybe it's lack of foresight:

What happens when we're older? When we're not as "cool"? When we don't look as good in skinny jeans?

Or, even worse, what about when we've been diagnosed with cancer/something else? Wouldn't we wish that we and our nerdy peers spent time solving those problems to help save ourselves? When do we realize that while vanity, voyeurism, and sex can easily bring in the eyeballs/cash, that these things are fleeting....

...but love, health, and helping those less fortunate than us is what might actually save us in the long term.

But not too many seem to care.

It's weird.

(Back to working on my SnapChat-meets Tinder-meets Secret-meets Facebook clone. )