It still amazes me how different my perception is on starting successful businesses, versus most other people. I mean, there's the whole "the idea is not the i

It still amazes me how different my perception is on starting successful businesses, versus most other people. I mean, there's the whole "the idea is not the important part" slogan, which is true to at least some degree, which seems completely lost on the twins. And take this quote: When asked if they could have turned ConnectU into a site with hundreds of millions of users, like Mr. Zuckerberg did with Facebook, the twins replied in unison, “Absolutely.” Seriously, have you ever heard anyone who would say that they could absolutely succeed with any startup? The optimistic chances of success for any startup aren't huge, what makes them think they would absolutely succeed? Moreover, they're not talking about the kind of success that YC is happy with, or even the kind of success that VCs are happy with. They're talking about the kind of success of a once-in-a-decade company. Lastly, I've worked on my own startup for almost the past year. It's been a year of attempts, false starts, "pivots", eventually throwing out some ideas altogether and starting from new. From what I understand, after the Winkelvoss twins approached Zuck, less than 2 months passed before he went and released Facebook. 2 months, to me, seems like such a tiny, inconsequential amount of time when you're talking about starting a startup. Any way you look at it, from the facts as I understand them, this just seems like 3 people who have no idea what they're talking about, trying to squeeze money out of someone successful just because they can.