The San Francisco AI startup mindset: celebrate failure in public, mock it in private
ctjlewis · x · 2026-09-23
ctjlewis skewered the "San Francisco mindset" in AI startup culture with a vision-vs-reality contrast: the ideal is a place where you can try something crazy, get knocked down, and get back up; the reality is people who offer clueless analysis of your screwups, talk trash behind your back, and then claim they predicted your failure all along. The quoted reply praises it as an accurate distillation of the true SF mindset.
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