> if you have a strong accent (e.g. your English is not that great), you perform poorly as a startup. This isn’t a xenophobic statement, but just a statement of

> if you have a strong accent (e.g. your English is not that great), you perform poorly as a startup. This isn’t a xenophobic statement, but just a statement of fact. If that is supposed to be a statement of fact, it's wrong, for 2 reasons: a) A few observations do not equal causality. Unless each and every startup (founder?) was examined and found to match this statement, the statement is wrong. Try a weaker statement ("...you likely perform poorly as a startup...") b) I know several successful founders with strong accents in English. There's a small, but not insignificant factor you've left out: the US market isn't everything (and it's becoming less important every day). A startup neither has to be successful in the US to be successful, nor does it even have to have English speaking customers or users. Nit-picking? Sure. But I wasn't the one who made overly broad statements that possibly offended startup founders all over the world.