Wednesday, August 31, 2016

How Tech Sees Itself Versus Reality

From Mattermark's blog:

Editor’s Morning Note: If you peel back the clouds surrounding Spin Mountain, there is much in tech left to be undesired. 

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Stock image of Spin Mountain, taken in 1843 on a proto-iPhone.
While writing something short about the IPO market yesterday, I ran across an image that caught my eye. This, I thought, must be how venture capitalists imagine themselves.
Given the implication that the venture kids were deluded, it wasn’t a very kind thought. But it worked enough as a concept to doodle up a few other ideas concerning you and I, and how we view ourselves in contrast to reality.
So, for fun, this.

Venture Capitalists

How they see themselves:

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How they are seen by others:

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Viva Vevo.
What people actually want:

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Image via Flickr user Ildar Sagdejev under CC BY 2.0. Image has been cropped.

The Tech Press

How it sees itself:

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Via HuffPo.
How it is seen by others:

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What people actually want:

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Founders

How they view themselves:

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Image via Flickr user Heisenberg Media under CC BY 2.0. Image has been cropped.
How others see them:

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What people actually want:

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