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With all due respect, and as much as I am tired of complaining, your first point is kind of absurd. As for your second point: what or who are you quoting? My b

With all due respect, and as much as I am tired of complaining, your first point is kind of absurd. As for your second point: what or who are you quoting? My bio doesn't say that. I take great care not to say that. For better or worse, people care about this stuff. That's why they made a movie. That's why Mark is speaking at Startup School. It's the sad truth that a politician will pay more attention to someone who demonstrates that they were involved in the creation of a widely-known enterprise. If you look around, you'll see that it's just not the politicians, either.

maximusprime 15y ago
My first point was: You chose a highly regulated industry sector which was never going to be easy. And now you're complaining it's highly regulated and not easy. I was reading your "About" page. You seem to want to paint yourself as a martyr who has had to fight people every step of the way to get the success which you apparently deserve - That everyone else is wrong, and that you have succeeded despite all these people standing in your way. I don't think that's a likable picture. Also from http://www.thinkpress.com/authoritas/index.html http://www.thinkpress.com/authoritas/index.html "While at Harvard, he invented The Facebook." - I mean wtf that's cringeworthy surely. Hope you take this critique in a good natured way... If I were you I'd remove every reference to facebook, startup something new in an UNREGULATED sector, (eg not finance), and prove people you can be successful.
- thinkcomp 15y ago
  No, I'm pretty sure your first point was not what I did do; it was what you think I (or presumably any entrepreneur?) should not do: complain about or enter any difficult sector. What a pathetic, un-American mentality. You can't be serious. I don't know where you get the notion that one should only be successful in "an UNREGULATED sector," but if reading my critiques of a system that is so broken people are literally in the streets as I write this--it it's really that painful for you, you probably won't want to read Hacker News, or open a newspaper, for the next few months. Because as I said in the letter, I am not done, and I don't think Occupy Wall Street is, either. Sheesh.
  - maximusprime 15y ago
    Occupy Wall Street will be forgotten about by Christmas. If you want to spend your energy complaining how unfair life is, go ahead. I prefer to spend mine doing more useful things.
- angelbob 15y ago
  Actually, he's complaining that it's capriciously regulated and the state refuses to give straight answers. Particularly in a highly-regulated industry, that is the state's responsibility. He's not complaining that it's highly regulated. Actually, he almost seems to be glorying in the fact that it's highly regulated.
- rhizome 15y ago
  If it's so highly regulated, why is FaceCash's experience one of vagueness and ill-defined boundaries?

maximusprime 15y ago

My first point was: You chose a highly regulated industry sector which was never going to be easy. And now you're complaining it's highly regulated and not easy. I was reading your "About" page. You seem to want to paint yourself as a martyr who has had to fight people every step of the way to get the success which you apparently deserve - That everyone else is wrong, and that you have succeeded despite all these people standing in your way. I don't think that's a likable picture. Also from http://www.thinkpress.com/authoritas/index.html http://www.thinkpress.com/authoritas/index.html "While at Harvard, he invented The Facebook." - I mean wtf that's cringeworthy surely. Hope you take this critique in a good natured way... If I were you I'd remove every reference to facebook, startup something new in an UNREGULATED sector, (eg not finance), and prove people you can be successful.

thinkcomp 15y ago
No, I'm pretty sure your first point was not what I did do; it was what you think I (or presumably any entrepreneur?) should not do: complain about or enter any difficult sector. What a pathetic, un-American mentality. You can't be serious. I don't know where you get the notion that one should only be successful in "an UNREGULATED sector," but if reading my critiques of a system that is so broken people are literally in the streets as I write this--it it's really that painful for you, you probably won't want to read Hacker News, or open a newspaper, for the next few months. Because as I said in the letter, I am not done, and I don't think Occupy Wall Street is, either. Sheesh.
- maximusprime 15y ago
  Occupy Wall Street will be forgotten about by Christmas. If you want to spend your energy complaining how unfair life is, go ahead. I prefer to spend mine doing more useful things.
angelbob 15y ago
Actually, he's complaining that it's capriciously regulated and the state refuses to give straight answers. Particularly in a highly-regulated industry, that is the state's responsibility. He's not complaining that it's highly regulated. Actually, he almost seems to be glorying in the fact that it's highly regulated.
rhizome 15y ago
If it's so highly regulated, why is FaceCash's experience one of vagueness and ill-defined boundaries?