I haven't commented on this dustup until now, but what the heck. I guess I can't understand how this could even be argued. Of course being difficult for your m

I haven't commented on this dustup until now, but what the heck. I guess I can't understand how this could even be argued. Of course being difficult for your main audience to understand is going to make it more difficult for you to be successful. It just is. I'm going to give PG a pass on the 'foreign accents' bit because he'd probably as soon say a strong southern accent would be just as detrimental as a strong russian accent (I hope). I look at it this way. I ran a dev team 8 or so years ago. Half the team was in the US and the other half in India. The half in India, while speaking English, couldn't understand the team in the US (including myself) when we spoke. And vise versa. We were both speaking English but we couldn't understand each other. As the manager at the time I had to make sure I was understood to both teams all the time. It was a great effort on my part. I wrote quite a bit more in the beginning and spent a LOT of time on the phone with the team in India. Did I mention that it took a LONG time? It did. This is compounded when you are a founder. A founder needs to be understood all the way around as precisely as possible. I completely understand what PG was saying, or maybe, trying to say. Now, all that said, if he stands by 'foreign accents' rather than 'accents' or, even better 'being understood', well then, I'll take back my defense of PG and mostly just say how important it is to be understood by your audience.