As a bootstrapped founder I am biased but given everything I have seen and heard in the last couple of decades I think the tone has shifted from success at any cost to creating sustainable/profitable businesses.
It also helps that in many ways creating a startup has been commoditized. Specifically, it's now cheaper and easier to use various online tools to get a new business up and running with little upfront cash/time than ever before. This trend will continue.
That's not to say this is true for all startups but it is true for the majority of them.
The good old days of being able to exploit starry eyed kids for their ideas in return for taking the majority of their equity is hopefully behind us.
It also helps that in many ways creating a startup has been commoditized. Specifically, it's now cheaper and easier to use various online tools to get a new business up and running with little upfront cash/time than ever before. This trend will continue.
That's not to say this is true for all startups but it is true for the majority of them.
The good old days of being able to exploit starry eyed kids for their ideas in return for taking the majority of their equity is hopefully behind us.