I think it’s probably right that some people are better at running successful startups than others. They might be more willing to try / fail, have better ideas,

I think it’s probably right that some people are better at running successful startups than others. They might be more willing to try / fail, have better ideas, etc, and it isn’t just stuff like having good connections to funding. I think it could still be true that the advice isn’t very good but not for the reason the tweet gives (I agree the tweet is stupid). In particular, I think there could be a lot of tacit things that aren’t really expressed in advice, especially the ‘startup influencer’ types who give out advice on twitter. For example, it might be that being really good at hiring and having people work on the right thing is a key skill and a successful founder might think they just walked around the office and asked obvious questions without being able to write down what exactly it was they did to steer the company in the right direction.