OP and article's point is that startups are sort of like a crapshoot. You can have the best product, the best team, do everything you read on HN and elsewhere a

OP and article's point is that startups are sort of like a crapshoot. You can have the best product, the best team, do everything you read on HN and elsewhere and still fail. That's the type of environment-high risk but not necessarily high reward. It's not like speculating on financial markets because startup costs a chunk of your life. I've toiled for years trying to be a startup and what I realized is, people are so focused on startup they forget that it's just a business at the end of the day with checks and balances to answer to. Early stage VC funding is fuelling this aggressive style which only works in the favor of VC's not necessarily the founders and their employees. You are just a naked call option for these VCs-unlimited upward potential, limited capital loss. It make sense for VC's to spray and pray to see what sticks. I don't want my life to be a fucking call option for somebody to fulfill their ephemeral desires for more wealth with diminishing returns and benefit to society.