"The top-voted comment on this thread really should be words of praise for what Zuckerberg and his team have accomplished." Then there is this HN thread today:

"The top-voted comment on this thread really should be words of praise for what Zuckerberg and his team have accomplished." Then there is this HN thread today: http://smalldogsbigdogs.tumblr.com/post/23291496479/avoiding-depression-while-not-running-a-1b-company http://smalldogsbigdogs.tumblr.com/post/23291496479/avoiding... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3992296 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3992296 Specifically: "As the founder of a small company in Chicago who only took $17k from YCombinator 6 years ago (YC-W06) and now runs a classic “lifestyle” business that support myself and a small team from client revenues, I find myself wavering between being fairly satisfied with the state of my business life to mild depression and jealousy that I’m not in a situation to be cashing in myself." None of the above is a problem for a) the (positive) peanut gallery on HN or b) Angel investors or c) HN or d) VC's. They are either disconnected from the pain or have spread their risk among multiple companies at the psychological expense of the people who think of themselves of failures. The support system for these failures is reading other people's cynicism and maybe by reading that some will be prevented from thinking this black swan event might actually be possible. Edit: Above where I say c) "HN" I mean c) "YC"