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> Vastly many more people get rich with 'lifestyle' companies than get rich with moonshots. Not being combative, but can you justify that statement with data? It just seems implausible to me, given that the moonshot companies tend to employ a lot more people. Yes, relatively few companies become "big deals", but those companies (Adobe, MS, Google, Facebook, Apple) are the ones that actually employ most of the people…
They are all around you. My business. Gravity Forms. Campaign Monitor. Harvest. Peepcode. Marc-André Cournoyer. WooThemes. Tick. Envato. Beanstalk & Postmark. And on and on and on. These are just some of the folks I know personally, in our space. I could name so many more in other industries. There are so many more, everywhere. You're soaking in it. Most of these people are too busy making bank to blog about it (or t…
Re: The Forgotten Founder: A Silicon Valley Tale of Humiliation and Revenge
#111To offer another example that occurred to me when I was reading this: HN's Jason Kester has frequently written about how his simple, little app S3Stat allows him to travel the world, rock-climbing and working when he wants to, with S3Stat itself requiring next to no maintenance. See, for example, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1925214