I think it's important to put this book into a few contexts: - It was published in 2007. I think if you picked up the book around that time it was extremely pr

I think it's important to put this book into a few contexts: - It was published in 2007. I think if you picked up the book around that time it was extremely prescient in many ways. If you hopped on the "sell anything online" and "outsource most online labor" bandwagon in 2007/2008 I think you had a very good shot of coming out with a good business. At least, this is what I have seen with acquaintances who bought the hype back then. - It was written by an ambitious 20-something with a lot of dreams, idealism, and smarts but not much "real world" experience. Many of us were ambitious 20-somethings who thought we had the answers to the new world at one point in our lives. Reading it from this perspective paints the ideas in the book with that wonderful energy-of-youth instead of cringe internet-guru vibes. It is a young-persons book written for a very specific point in time. I do not expect it to age well but I also don't criticize it nearly as much as some people who tend to really hate on it.