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but this picture that is being painted of him as some sort of homeless street person is rather warped, don't you think? I don't think there is a single person

• josefresco 13y ago
  The headline (which begins that picture) implies that he went directly from food stamps to a billionaire. You might argue that the time frame doesn't matter, but then you could make up all sorts of crazy headline with logic like that, such as "Man who could barely feed himself now a billionaire" ..and begin the story when the subject was an infant. Silly and extreme I know, but clearly timeframe matters. It's still an impressive climb, even if he started with millions (as any amount to several billion is just huge). But I don't think being on food stamps as a kid, is the same as being on food stamps recently or as an adult.
  • brown9-2 13y ago
    But do you think anyone who actually reads this article or any other WhatsApp backgrounder will have the same impression?
    • josefresco 13y ago
      After reading some of the comments here at HN, yes I do. In fact, in the spirit of debate (which is mostly what we all do here at HN) this is a valid point to discuss. Probably not important in the grand scheme of things, but really it's commentary about catchy/misleading headlines and news stories than it is about the specifics of this story. "Founder Goes from Rags to Riches" is a better headline than "Upper Middle Class Yahoo! Engineer Makes Billions". Both are correct but in order to gain readers the former is chosen almost every time (for better or worse). I'm going to do us both a favor and stop checking this thread and get back to making my own success story ;)