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The thing is that this advice is not good advice for most startup founders. Founders already have to have a huge amount of self-belief before they have any chan
by Traster 5y ago
The thing is that this advice is not good advice for most startup founders. Founders already have to have a huge amount of self-belief before they have any chance of succcess. That's not a problem silicon valley has. Silicon Valley has the opposite problem - a failure to take criticism seriously, and PG's advice here is just another part of that unhealthy culture.
- meowface 5y agoI understand your point, but, again, I think this is an essay with a narrow purpose intended for a very specific audience. It's not advice about how to think about oneself or how to respond to criticism. If someone reads this essay and takes away from it "I need to be more arrogant and self-confident in all instances", then that's their own problem.