Maybe you're seeing this because so many startups these days seem to target upper middle class millennials by stepping between them and how they spend their money: start-up leeches. They do little except skim money going some place else under the "social" moniker by targeting people who are (1) unmarried, (2) mostly 18-34, and (3) have disposable income. They may even truly provide temporary value to that narrow community, but they're societal insulators building more of a divide between the upper middle class and the poor, between the young and the old, and between the haves and the have nots.

After all these years of stepping in the middle, maybe we want to see some of the VCs not targeting skimming money going some place else but instead, creating a startup that doesn't concentrate on "bringing the most money to founders and shareholders" but moves society around others who do. Even if that means their startup won't get them a seat at the billionaire's table.

--eat the rich Are we getting hungry yet?

>The vitriol in a bunch of these comments makes me ashamed of this community.

Disclaimer: I don't know the first thing about Mr. Costolo, besides his association with Twitter.

Sometimes the unabashed fawning over everything tech and our Venture Capital overlords makes me ashamed of this community.