The amount of cynicism in the comments for this story is astounding. The list of complaints is long. By my accounting, people don't like that the founders were:

The amount of cynicism in the comments for this story is astounding. The list of complaints is long. By my accounting, people don't like that the founders were: * naive * exploitative of the funding climate * deluded into irrational personal sacrifice by dreams of riches * whiners for thinking their hardship was hard * bad decision-makers overall by coming to SF What happened to being charitable? Taro and co have built a real company out of nothing, and they took a particular path to get there. No one was harmed and it looks like they had a great time. Startups are HARD and you should expect successful (for some value of success) companies to have odd beginnings.