(missed edit window.) What I mean is that, just as the OP does (who is in fact a very experienced HN contributor despite this one comment reading as though writ

(missed edit window.) What I mean is that, just as the OP does (who is in fact a very experienced HN contributor despite this one comment reading as though written by an outsider), we all know the context that is meant here with a specific kind of startup, and don't presume to generalize it. "The great era of starting a new business in the USA was several decades ago" - except for building the next instagram or airbnb while having $0 in capital and maybe 8 months of coding experience, oh and not even any business experience, perhaps still being a twenty-something who has never done anything. Then "several decades ago" probably wasn't the best time to build the next social startup. But the above ridiculous constraints are still enough for some of us, people reading this very thread, to succeed at this. Literally. That doesn't mean we presume to extend this to the rest of America's 20 million entrepreneurs and business owners. That's why I said it looked like he was a new user who didn't know where he was for a second :)