Metadata
- Author: Benn Stancil
- Full Title:: Fear and Self-Loathing in Silicon Valley
- Category:: 🗞️Articles
- URL:: https://benn.substack.com/p/fear-and-self-loathing-in-silicon
- Read date:: 2025-06-21
Highlights
A disorganized traffic jam of middle-aged men—and we were mostly men; (View Highlight)
Two founders walk on stage; usually young; also usually men. (View Highlight)
Something is up and to the right; something is exponential; something is going vertical. (View Highlight)
today’s Silicon Valley is free because it no longer cares. It no longer needs to care; that branding is no longer useful. (View Highlight)
Early in the day, a startup pitched a product that makes it easier for health care providers to fight denied insurance claims. More than $260 billion in claims are denied every year; with denials on the rise, the system is collapsing under its own weight, they said. Our agents will help hospitals rightfully recover the money they’re owed. Later, another startup pitched their insurance claims product—a platform for insurance adjusters to automate how they collect and initially evaluat claims. An AI agent for both sides. (View Highlight)
“You really need to get out. I’m from Florida; people are different there. It’s good to talk to them. The way they think about software and AI…they’re a very different type of buyer.” That’s a start, I suppose. If we’re going to rebuild the world, best to visit it—even if only to sell to it—first. (View Highlight)