"He says it's not worth doing in general." He did not. It's you who read that in and became indignant at it. "There's no qualifier." Certainly there is—the t

"He says it's not worth doing in general." He did not. It's you who read that in and became indignant at it. "There's no qualifier." Certainly there is—the title of the post. Plus its whole context, which is obviously that of a classic Silicon Valley venture-funded startup. Look at it this way. When people in this context say "You should go after a big market", do they mean that anyone going after a small market is an inferior person? Of course not. What they mean is that if you're going for a classic high-growth startup, you'll need a market big enough to support that. They're communicating a distilled lesson about startups, not the world in general. Same with Slava's post.