You've got a point about VCs. (Hollywood works in the exact same way) Some industries act like a high school hive-mind popularity contest that runs on social pr

You've got a point about VCs. (Hollywood works in the exact same way) Some industries act like a high school hive-mind popularity contest that runs on social proof over logic. Perhaps it works better for them to think emotionally like customers and users do. However, I've gotten 3 job offers when I posted my failures on HN. I've gotten no job offers when I posted my successes. Overall as hackers/entreps we understand that "failure = successful trying" so sharing failures on HN has it benefit.