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Ask HN: Do Zuckerberg, Page, Musk, etc, etc post here in HN?

20 points by dear 14y ago

Has any of those successful founders posted here, using fake name or not? If not, why don't we invite them to sign up and start a thread?

pg 14y ago
Mark might have. I'm pretty sure neither Elon Musk nor Larry Page has.
- dear 14y ago
  I have never seen a successful (rich) founder posting here. Is there a reason for that? Is it that once they become rich, they have to shut up? What about before they got rich? There is no trace of any activities of these people on the Internet/any forums. Or is it because a successful founder tends not to spend any time on internet/forums?
  - emmett 14y ago
    Your thesis is incorrect: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=pmarca https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=pmarca for example.
  - propercoil 14y ago
    who gives a damn?
    - dear 14y ago
      Promise us. Even if you become famous and rich one day, you would still keep posting loyally here, not just about your own product tho.
  - benologist 14y ago
    Any opinion they shared here would be splashed all over every tech rag scouring HN for news to rehash faster than cnet can turn someone else's chat with woz into a 'apple founder says android is better!' article.
  - hollerith 14y ago
    >I have never seen a successful (rich) founder posting here. https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dhouston https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dhouston
    - dear 14y ago
      His last submission was nearly 3 year old. His comments and submissions were mostly about his product. His post history has shown that he's substantially cut down his activities on HN. This case shows a negative correlation between success and activities on HN.
  - meepmorp 14y ago
    Doesn't pg count as a successful (rich) founder? He might not be a billionaire, but he ain't poor. I think he's involved in some kind of business that invests in start ups.
    - dear 14y ago
      Yes he is. But he is the owner of this board.
  - 6thSigma 14y ago
    I'm sure a ton of successful and rich founders lurk here.
  - Snail_Commando 14y ago
    Drew Houston posts here. In fact, he posted a few days ago.
  - rdl 14y ago
    pmarca? joshu? benhorowitz? guys from instagram? early FBers? dude from DDG? michaelwolfe?
  - mjn 14y ago
    Depends on your threshold for "rich", but the #1 in the list of HN posters (https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders), tptacek, sold his startup for >$10m.
    - tptacek 14y ago
      I am extremely small potatoes compared to some of the people who occasionally post here. Jason Fried, for instance, posts on stories about 37s. If we're talking the Larry Page scale, well, Marc Andreessen posts here often enough to have noticed Maciej Ceglowski's Co-Prosperity Cloud; he saw a comment I left about a $50 follow-on investment and matched it.
      - mjn 14y ago
        True, you are no Bill Gates, or even Marc Andreessen. I think you would still qualify as a successful founder who posts here, though. How successful? Depends on your perspective. I thought I had relatives who I would classify as "extremely successful" and "rich", and they sold their companies for... high 5 figures. :) I must admit, my vision gets a bit blurry when it comes to distinguishing between numbers with 8+ figures...
  - philipDS 14y ago
    Andrew Mason asked quite a few questions on HN as well (before Groupon got big), afaik.
  - hojoff79 14y ago
    Andrew Mason posted on here a few times, but when the website was in the early stages. See below for the posts https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=picnichouse https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=picnichouse However they were not well received (as has been discussed in a couple other threads)
JT123 14y ago
Its not about rich or poor. Its about focus and need. Early in the product/company building stage you need to be doing lot of development (assuming you are a tech co-founder), but as company grow, most likely your profile is going to grow as well and now you are not developing anymore (or at least not so often). And hence there is much lesser need to be on dev/hacker network. Now they have team of devs, and I am they are here, contributing.
brudgers 14y ago
I am not sure how much better their advice would be than that of the HN'ers who have enjoyed success as founders but with thinner wallets. Brin etc. experiences from ramen to $50 million are roughly equivalent to that of others, and for anyone pushing toward $10 billion from $1 billion, there are probably better ways to pick their brains than in an HN comment thread. While it would be entertaining to see them posting here, a Reddit AMA is probably a better forum.
- ibudiallo 14y ago
  Reddit AMA is completely saturated. In order to read the good stuff you have to go through so much noise.
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20 points by dear 14y ago

Has any of those successful founders posted here, using fake name or not? If not, why don't we invite them to sign up and start a thread?

pg 14y ago

Mark might have. I'm pretty sure neither Elon Musk nor Larry Page has.

dear 14y ago
I have never seen a successful (rich) founder posting here. Is there a reason for that? Is it that once they become rich, they have to shut up? What about before they got rich? There is no trace of any activities of these people on the Internet/any forums. Or is it because a successful founder tends not to spend any time on internet/forums?
- emmett 14y ago
  Your thesis is incorrect: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=pmarca https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=pmarca for example.
- propercoil 14y ago
  who gives a damn?
  - dear 14y ago
    Promise us. Even if you become famous and rich one day, you would still keep posting loyally here, not just about your own product tho.
- benologist 14y ago
  Any opinion they shared here would be splashed all over every tech rag scouring HN for news to rehash faster than cnet can turn someone else's chat with woz into a 'apple founder says android is better!' article.
- hollerith 14y ago
  >I have never seen a successful (rich) founder posting here. https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dhouston https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dhouston
  - dear 14y ago
    His last submission was nearly 3 year old. His comments and submissions were mostly about his product. His post history has shown that he's substantially cut down his activities on HN. This case shows a negative correlation between success and activities on HN.
- meepmorp 14y ago
  Doesn't pg count as a successful (rich) founder? He might not be a billionaire, but he ain't poor. I think he's involved in some kind of business that invests in start ups.
  - dear 14y ago
    Yes he is. But he is the owner of this board.
- 6thSigma 14y ago
  I'm sure a ton of successful and rich founders lurk here.
- Snail_Commando 14y ago
  Drew Houston posts here. In fact, he posted a few days ago.
- rdl 14y ago
  pmarca? joshu? benhorowitz? guys from instagram? early FBers? dude from DDG? michaelwolfe?
- mjn 14y ago
  Depends on your threshold for "rich", but the #1 in the list of HN posters (https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders), tptacek, sold his startup for >$10m.
  - tptacek 14y ago
    I am extremely small potatoes compared to some of the people who occasionally post here. Jason Fried, for instance, posts on stories about 37s. If we're talking the Larry Page scale, well, Marc Andreessen posts here often enough to have noticed Maciej Ceglowski's Co-Prosperity Cloud; he saw a comment I left about a $50 follow-on investment and matched it.
    - mjn 14y ago
      True, you are no Bill Gates, or even Marc Andreessen. I think you would still qualify as a successful founder who posts here, though. How successful? Depends on your perspective. I thought I had relatives who I would classify as "extremely successful" and "rich", and they sold their companies for... high 5 figures. :) I must admit, my vision gets a bit blurry when it comes to distinguishing between numbers with 8+ figures...
- philipDS 14y ago
  Andrew Mason asked quite a few questions on HN as well (before Groupon got big), afaik.
- hojoff79 14y ago
  Andrew Mason posted on here a few times, but when the website was in the early stages. See below for the posts https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=picnichouse https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=picnichouse However they were not well received (as has been discussed in a couple other threads)

JT123 14y ago

Its not about rich or poor. Its about focus and need. Early in the product/company building stage you need to be doing lot of development (assuming you are a tech co-founder), but as company grow, most likely your profile is going to grow as well and now you are not developing anymore (or at least not so often). And hence there is much lesser need to be on dev/hacker network. Now they have team of devs, and I am they are here, contributing.

brudgers 14y ago

I am not sure how much better their advice would be than that of the HN'ers who have enjoyed success as founders but with thinner wallets. Brin etc. experiences from ramen to $50 million are roughly equivalent to that of others, and for anyone pushing toward $10 billion from $1 billion, there are probably better ways to pick their brains than in an HN comment thread. While it would be entertaining to see them posting here, a Reddit AMA is probably a better forum.

ibudiallo 14y ago
Reddit AMA is completely saturated. In order to read the good stuff you have to go through so much noise.

iwashere 14y ago

Not sure about if have or not; but why not set THE trend from this moment... http://yougle.fbviralvideos.com http://yougle.fbviralvideos.com I created YouGle- a much faster and smarter way for googling your YouTube Videos in less than 5 hours. Check this out... Spread the word as a token of appreciation. http://yougle.fbviralvideos.com http://yougle.fbviralvideos.com Cheers, Vipul