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Very few people are ever going to achieve the success that Patrick has. Is that critique equally applicable to the 2006 version of this post, which you can fin
by patio11 14y ago
Very few people are ever going to achieve the success that Patrick has.
Is that critique equally applicable to the 2006 version of this post, which you can find linked? (It is the first one?) Spoiler: that shows ~$1,000 in profits on ~$2,000 in sales.
That does not sound like a towering and insurmountable barrier to me. (Neither do my 2012 results, since I know how I got them and none of it involves being the Dark Lord Of Software Optimization. Plus, they're fairly modest if your reference set includes larger firms in the software industry, from publicly traded titans like Google down to the businesses of many other HNers, which would lose my entire business in the petty cash drawer.)
- ruswick 14y agoI would not include those businesses because they do not exemplify what makes your position unique: that you're self employed. For an individual running several smaller businesses, you are in a remarkable position. Just because you are smaller than Google does not mean that you are not incredibly fortunate and successful.
- roel_v 14y agoYou're deliberately avoiding addressing his point, which is that in his 2006 overview, he wasn't making much at all, yet he still did the same overviews.