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You make a lot of sense. A lot of good sense. Yup, you do a good job! But, but, but, and you are not nearly alone, you are not Peter who did PayPal, now has
by graycat 12y ago
You make a lot of sense. A lot of good sense. Yup,
you do a good job!
But, but, but, and you are not nearly alone, you are not Peter who did PayPal, now has the big bucks, dreams big
dreams, and gets famous, and maybe some revenue, by
writing books that mostly people at HN can find mostly
obvious and mostly improve on!
So, I ask you: Between smarts, hard work, and luck, you'd pick which one?
- graycat 12y agoThanks a lot guys: I don't know what they heck you are so upset about: What I wrote is not facetious but genuinely complimentary to baddox. The baddox post was good. How good? The thinking in that post seems to me to be better than the thinking in the book under discussion. And, moreover, much of the thinking of posts on this thread at HN seems to me to be better than what is in the books, and I said that. So, in comparison, the thinking in the book is not very good. And I read a chapter of the book, have read the corresponding VC Web site, and did get a call from the VC firm and talked for about an hour. Still, generally, the thinking in this thread is better. So, a question arises: How could the book and its author have done so well for themselves? I offered luck as one possible answer. And you are torqued at some of that?