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He wrote a lot about how he didn't play the raising money game. Okay, I said to myself: this will be interesting. He'll write about what he knows. I'll get a
by logicallee 10y ago
He wrote a lot about how he didn't play the raising money game. Okay, I said to myself: this will be interesting. He'll write about what he knows. I'll get a glimpse into this life and what it's like to live it. Maybe he has more time for oil painting and reading fiction than any Musk or Zuckerberg I've ever read anything by. Maybe I'll decide to do things the same way he did.
But then for some reason, after he began by stating he did not try to make a dent in the Universe or raise $100m - he proceeds to write about what it's like to do so.
How would he know? This irrelevant stuff about stuff he doesn't know about is just noise. Because he doesn't know.
If he wants me to pay attention to him (and the post is titled "reconsider") he needs to write why. Not piss on someone else's corn flakes.
It sounds like sour grapes to me. I mean, why even write about something you don't know? Write what you do know...
>So first you take a lot of money from angels desperate to not miss out on the next big unicorn. Then you take an obscene amount of money from VCs to inflate your top-line growth, to entice the investment bankers that you might be worthy of foisting upon the public markets, eventually, or a suitable tech behemoth.
If you say so...
- sytse 10y ago> He'll write about what he knows. I'll get a glimpse into this life and what it's like to live it. Maybe he has more time for oil painting and reading fiction than any Musk or Zuckerberg I've ever read anything by. Maybe I'll decide to do things the same way he did. He made and maintains Ruby on Rails and in 2014 won his class in the 82nd running of the 24 hours of Le Mans. Other things he has more time for are listed at the top of http://david.heinemeierhansson.com/ http://david.heinemeierhansson.com/
- logicallee 10y agoBut this whole article doesn't even mention any of that, even in passing.
- manmal 10y agoI think you are nonplussed regarding DHH's actual motivation for ranting about the status quo of startup world instead of just enjoying that he has had it better? I see two possibilities: A, it's content marketing for his products (esp the books). B, he really thinks that people are ruining their lives chasing the current holy grail. I'd really love to know which it is.
- robotresearcher 10y ago> I'd really love to know which it is. Since those are not exclusive, why not both?
- manmal 10y agoI mean, which has the upper hand?
- logicallee 10y agoif he thinks his lifestyle is worth emulating, he should write about it.