First, thanks for your reply. Yet, unwittingly you have confirmed my point: the takeover of the neo-liberal doctrine of academia. The driver of start-ups is (quick) capitalisation of intellectual endeavour. That has two effects: only endeavours that have quick capitalisation potential will be actively pursued and, as the central focus is market value, little to zero attention is given to the deeper implications.

To give an example: in Start-Up logic, unicorns like Airbnb are the pinnacle of success. But to those who have some philosophical underpinning, the commodification and surrender to hyper-capitalism of "the home", of the private, the personal is a real big issue. As it is another sad step on the long path of estrangement and fundamental alienation of what it is to be human. But I suspect you have no idea of what I am talking about.

To end, a short sideline. Business and also my field, engineering, were once considered vocational education, not part of academia. The fact that they now call themselves universities is proof of our systemic erosion of key values. For anyone reading this, to get the gist, compare the depth of a Roger Penrose lecture with Sam Altman's… and see what I mean. Brilliant people like Allain Turing, Nicolai Tesla (not the fake one, the marketing appropriation guy, Elon), etc, are products of the high-quality academic settings and in-depth discourse of their times...one we have squandered in the West.