If you are looking at this as a way of measuring virtue-points and deciding how much we should admire the writer, you are correct in that it is nonsense. Howev

If you are looking at this as a way of measuring virtue-points and deciding how much we should admire the writer, you are correct in that it is nonsense. However if you want to encourage other people to become entrepreneurs, or give advice to some new entrepreneur, it's important to remember that you can't just read on what successful entrepreneurs did and tell them to copy from them. Their techniques might have worked because of dumb luck (survivor bias) or because of some advantage they took for granted (privilege) That's why people caring about privilege isn't always nonsense. They want to know which factors of success can be imitated, and how to compensate for the factors that cannot.