I think there's an explicit rule on hn against metacommentary on voting, but it can be a useful signal of the vibes within the community as a whole, and I do th

I think there's an explicit rule on hn against metacommentary on voting, but it can be a useful signal of the vibes within the community as a whole, and I do think that critically examining the VC model of tech startups kind of edges close to the sacred cows of this particular community (it is a public forum, but it's also ycombinator). But even if you're not bought into that particular organization's messaging, I do sympathize with not wanting to feel like your life's work is executing a bunch of cargo-cult behaviors to keep some investors who make all the real decisions happy with you. While I do think what I said was based on my best attempt at a sober assessment of reality, a synthesis of my own direct experience and the described experience of friends and colleagues and glances at the overall landscape from broad reporting done by various sources, it's a really bitter and painful thing to understand