The people who will be the real leaders of the web are the people who saw what the amateurs did and the wreckage they left behind. We know what works, what didn't and how to succeed online. We've learned the hard way what not to do. The leaders of the next wave of web companies will be stripped of that utopian idealism and belief in self and be ready to build companies that work. All the rich kids and MBA's without a clue will not get to play this time.
Amateur hour is over.
The real work is about to begin. I've been burned by those amateurs and I've let some of them exploit me. I was a sucker. I was a fool. I was every kind of idiot you people could call me.