Did he miss intrinsic motivation? VC seems less related to what designers like to do and think about.
People often do tech work in order to build big things and make money, and VCs are right there in that game. Many engineers and programmers I've known speak of people who made a lot of money in the industry, and sometimes reference how they did things.
I don't recall that mindset in designers. They've far more often been pointing at some (anonymous) beautiful work or speaking about how great somebody's body of work is.. but personal profit isn't amongst the qualities mentioned. Market success is pretty rare too, and usually more related to the "clients don't know what they need, have no taste, are creatively barren, and have to be worked on/around" theme.
From my experience, I'd expect designers to be far more likely to end in groups supporting the arts rather than groups investing in tech.
First, thanks to all who responded to my blog post!
As far as intrinsic motivation goes, I did think about this, but in the end I declined to comment on generalizing about the motivations of a group of people. I chose to stay with non-motivational factors in my discussion because those could be analyzed more objectively. I did not feel right saying that one group of individuals thinks this way more than any other group, and certainly without a serious survey to really see what people want to do.
I do believe, like many other disciplines, that designers haven't been exposed to, or even given the opportunity to enter the investor business until recent years. Now that the discipline has been exposed to a new potential career path, I think we'll see that perhaps peoples' motivations could change simply because they have the exposure to a new possibility.
People often do tech work in order to build big things and make money, and VCs are right there in that game. Many engineers and programmers I've known speak of people who made a lot of money in the industry, and sometimes reference how they did things.
I don't recall that mindset in designers. They've far more often been pointing at some (anonymous) beautiful work or speaking about how great somebody's body of work is.. but personal profit isn't amongst the qualities mentioned. Market success is pretty rare too, and usually more related to the "clients don't know what they need, have no taste, are creatively barren, and have to be worked on/around" theme.
From my experience, I'd expect designers to be far more likely to end in groups supporting the arts rather than groups investing in tech.