Haha, I feel like I’ve been each and every one of those stereotypes at some point in my life :D
Hackathons have become VC pitch-a-thons in my region though. So boring. Most teams don’t even code, they just use demo software to make an interactive video of what their code might do. Or they just bring in their company’s product and pretend they wrote it just then.
Often it’s not even a real competition. The VC judges just have an investment they want to get publicity for. So they win the ‘competition’ no matter what, even if it’s embarrassingly bad. Sometimes the actual competition doesn’t even happen in this case. That happened to a colleague last month.
I stopped going to these things when they stopped being about creativity and technology.
I hope that in other parts of the world they are a more positive experience! Some of the ones I went to 10+ years ago were really fun!
Haha, I feel like I’ve been each and every one of those stereotypes at some point in my life :D
Hackathons have become VC pitch-a-thons in my region though. So boring. Most teams don’t even code, they just use demo software to make an interactive video of what their code might do. Or they just bring in their company’s product and pretend they wrote it just then.
Often it’s not even a real competition. The VC judges just have an investment they want to get publicity for. So they win the ‘competition’ no matter what, even if it’s embarrassingly bad. Sometimes the actual competition doesn’t even happen in this case. That happened to a colleague last month.
I stopped going to these things when they stopped being about creativity and technology.
I hope that in other parts of the world they are a more positive experience! Some of the ones I went to 10+ years ago were really fun!