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I think that Paul Graham was referring to quite different case than Simone in this post. When you're non-native English speaker working for already established
by ArekDymalski 13y ago
I think that Paul Graham was referring to quite different case than Simone in this post. When you're non-native English speaker working for already established company, you can count on the fact that the customer has some incentive in communicating with you. But when you are a CEO of a startup nobody knows or trusts, people won't care and it's not that big surprise.
- simonebrunozzi 13y agoExactly. I am making a more general point, while Paul Graham was just specifically talking about startup CEOs. By the way, this is probably why some people found his post xenophobic: they thought he was expressing a judgement on people with accents; he just wanted to say something to help startup CEOs with strong accents.