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Oh man...he had me until he called thousands of people, many of whom I know personally, "probably either unethical or lazy." I think we can all agree that ther
by rwalling 13y ago
Oh man...he had me until he called thousands of people, many of whom I know personally, "probably either unethical or lazy."
I think we can all agree that there are multiple ways to approach startups.
The misstep Myles makes is to assume that one approach is somehow superior to another, and then take the further step of insulting everyone who is striving for something different than what he sees as the best option.
We all have opinions on this topic, and it's an interesting discussion to have. But let's try to avoid dogma and judgment.
What's right for your unique situation isn't necessarily right for the 100,000 other people with similar ambitions, but who may be in vastly different life situations or just have different goals than you do.
Oh, and call me when you're 40, married with 2 kids and a mortgage, and you're coding Perl for a bank because none of your startups made you the millions that TechCrunch promised.
- gottagetmac 13y agoWhat are you talking about? PIH is the Myles surrogate in that conversation. He's making fun of Startup Guy for thinking that anyone who does what he (Myles) is doing is "unethical or lazy."
- rwalling 13y agoOops...apologies to Myles if I mis-read this - I thought he was mocking the PIH, taking the side of the startup guy.
- gottagetmac 13y agoMyles in fact does have a small one-person low-intensity startup off which he claims to make 5 figures per month. And don't you notice how he makes his lifestyle sound really good, and the startup guy's judgments seem silly? The funny part here is that you read this and actually agreed with Startup Guy for almost all of it. (From the rest of the comments it seems like a lot of HN did). That's part of his point, I guess.
- jreinholdt 13y agoI made the same mistake. Maybe we are so used to other people being super skeptical to what we do? See you in Prague ;-)
- zem 13y agocount yourself lucky if you're coding perl for a bank - from what i gather, most banks are Enterprise Java shops.