Rant/shameless plug: The author raises a few valid points -- which I would summarize as "any short definition of a complicated thing will have at least a few m

Rant/shameless plug: The author raises a few valid points -- which I would summarize as "any short definition of a complicated thing will have at least a few minor problems" -- but overall this feels pretty unconvincing to me. For example, I see nothing wrong with seeing a new company aimed at creating a global chain of barber shops as a startup -- yet I see plenty wrong with describing his grow-vegetables-on-the-moon company as a startup (cool space technology + no obvious business model = scientific foundation perhaps, but not even a business, let along a startup). Which makes it frustrating to see this on the front page, because I wrote my own response to PG's essay several weeks ago, [1] which I think was better thought out and written, and it got no love on HN (though it did on Twitter). /rant /plug [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4577525 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4577525