A few months ago, a startup developer friend said to me "I don't understand why poor kids, ghetto kids, don't do startups to get out of poverty." He's a good guy, and I know what he was trying to say. But the blunt truth is that he's absolutely right: he doesn't understand.

When I look at the tech industry in 2013, when I see what passes for innovation -- apps that let you hire a private car to get from SFO to Moscone Center, without all that tedious horror of actually hailing a cab, or outsourcing your dry cleaning delivery instead of just picking it up on the way home from work like a grownup -- I’m pretty sure that there’s a lot about the world that we really don’t understand at all.

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