As long as you don’t ask AI. It keeps giving the same bland startup ideas and I imagine the governance / regulatory evidence gathering market is going to be pretty crowded with startups.
There are no correct answers. It should probably be more of a subjective journey than we like to imagine.
Ultimately you get to decide what you want people to become. Even if you do it in ignorance.
To quote a wise man. If the revolution doesnt have singing and dancing im not comming.
Nonsense. All that's needed is asking around, and listen. You could literally throw the dice, go to random country X, and ask the 1st person you meet what would make their life better.
Maybe the gutter on their roof is leaking, and they need someone to fix it. If so, maybe there's more people with the same problem, and a gutter-fixer would make people happy.
Sure, if you have a 'grand vision' and (again, by asking around) find there's others sharing that vision, by all means go work on that. But to find something useful to work on, any 'vision' is really not required.
You could start a company in a random [poor] country, hire people and pay them a decent salary. Could even opperate at a loss and just pay for it.
Then you can put salary money in peoples pockets for a long time. (They can use that for their gutter too!)
Asking around for ideas what your company should do also sounds reasonable.
But say land mines are in high demand and there is room to pivot into AK-47.
Or you discover there is money in eyeballs on ads.
Its certainly much easier than making the next steam engine.
Its fine to have delusions of grandeur for a few hours in your life. Who knows what each unique person comes up with?
This is where I landed as well. If your company takes funding, then unless you're new and green, you should already know where it's heading. I cringe when I get contacted by recruiters touting their big funding rounds and valuations, as though it should mean something positive to me.
It also seems increasingly focused on b2b, which is probably representative of greater imbalances in the economy. What consumers can buy is becoming a slowing trickle down in itself.
The really odd, undelivered thing about LLMs is that if they are as productive as they seem, software people simply should not need VCs. Because you can self-fund a massive team of AI developers, you should be able to get your product ready for market in absolutely no time, and you should more or less be able to roll it out with nothing more than a tiny amount of seed capital and a suburban garage.