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"Maybe I'm reading this all wrong, but that bit sounds to me like trying to appear as a populist folk hero when you're really not." Cut him some slack. He's fr
by dnsworks 17y ago
"Maybe I'm reading this all wrong, but that bit sounds to me like trying to appear as a populist folk hero when you're really not."
Cut him some slack. He's from Seattle, it's a common attitude there. Having lived up there for a while, the start-up scene seemed to mostly focus on it's "we're not from San Francisco so nobody respects us" inferiority complex.
- potatolicious 17y agoActually, I live here - but I'm not in a startup ;) People here are nice enough - distant, antisocial, but nice.
- dnsworks 17y agoDon't get me wrong.. I actually liked a lot of Seattle .. At least the coffee shops, donut shops, and cupcake shops (Seattle is good at foods which cater to seasonal depression eating!).. Plus I met my two favorite Hacker News users there (troyd and carlcoryell). But beyond that, Seattle as a place for start-ups is just strange. At every happy hour, startup meetup, startup coffee event, whatever, invariably the theme always turned into this self-righteous "Seattle is just as important as the Silicon Valley, why don't we get the same respect? I mean we have Microsoft, Amazon, Boeing, and .. uhm .. that other company".