alt Hacker News> and proved that a values-driven social network could thrive at scale.
How could a social network, or anything humans create, not be values-driven?
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Values aren't the only motivator, unless you take an extremely broad definition of values.
The only value driving most things you see online is the value of money. Which is not the kind of values they are referring to.
I suppose in the same way that all eating is health and nutrition driven. Good or bad.
Seriously? If a company is publicly traded, they're legally required to prioritize shareholder value, unless they're a benefit corp or something with multiple bottom lines. I suppose you could call it values-driven to drive up the bottom line, but that's not normally what people mean.
You know how there are two sexual orientations: straight, and Political?
It’s sort of like that.
"values-driven" is the TedTalk-ified equivalent of MBA-speak like "synergy". Meaningless and unmeasurable, but sounds good in a pitch deck.