I'm with tptacek here. I don't see anything was particularly inflammatory, I just thought it was an encouragement post to solo-founders. Going to your quote at

I'm with tptacek here. I don't see anything was particularly inflammatory, I just thought it was an encouragement post to solo-founders. Going to your quote at the beginning, I think the low points part is really true, (as a single founder, I know it's really hard). The vote of no confidence from your friends I think is way off base though. Not everyone is at the same point in life, and many if not most 20-somethings don't aren't in a good enough financial position to not have an income for a significant period of time. We just got done getting huge loans to go to college, some get married, some have kids. It's not just, well he couldn't convince his friends to quit their mortgage paying jobs to do a startup with him his idea must suck.