It's amazing to read through all the comments. I think of you all as more intelligent than "normal people" (Non HN readers, lol), but the amount of unabashed, unfettered bias in the replies is fascinating. The number of replies without a disclaimer like "this is just my own experience, but here's what I think..." is just amazing.
That's my main takeaway from this discussion. All the other points became secondary.
Your price quotes for AWS support are wrong: Business support is 10% of your usage, or $100 USD whichever is higher. Enterprise support is 10% of your usage or $15k USD, whichever is higher. It's actually more complicated if your spend is high. Better point people to the info page here: https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/plans/
I think the point is: If you had no abilities, and only f*cked stuff up without outside help, but you had solid product market fit, that's the only thing that matters because everything else you can acquire (including funds to compensate for your shortcomings).
At first it does sound wrong, but as I think back to all successful people I've known, including the ones that I could not for the life of me figure out how they got more success than I (eg, grade school dropouts, alcoholics, etc), I _can_ see how they leveraged an insight about PMF to achieve many things that I've always wanted and never achieved for myself. Very enlightening, but still kinda sad, actually, lol.
Is this a joke reply? All I could find on Ty Webb is a bunch of Caddyshack references (I can't stand golf, so was clueless). Can you provide a link to the talk you're talking about?
If you're saying it died before it went to 25% of the world's population as a userbase, then you are using a definition of "death" that no one else is using.
Money is a lagging indicator. The love gave it a lot of value early and that value converted to money several years later. Network effects means it takes a lot of time to switch to a new product, but if they do, it will happen quickly and seemingly suddenly.
Employment law attorneys work on contingency, so no expense to you. You start on the wrongful termination suit, get evidence, and then go after the other company based on what you discover from your previous employer.
I guess it depends on where OP is located, but most US states have at-will employment, and being a hacker is not a protected class, so I don’t see how this could be an illegal firing.
Among the best mental health decisions of my life is to get rid of Twitter from my everyday life. I still have an account (the only reason to delete it would be as a sign of protect, but I don't care, and Twitter doesn't care that I don't care). I do not visit the site on my own. There's just so much negativity, cruelty, and stupid thoughts. How can anyone post anything insightful, nuanced, and worth reading with such a character limit?
I realized that interesting tweets (or rather, Twitter threads) have a way of finding me through other means. That's the only time I visit Twitter.
I'm ok on missing out on ideas that do not find me through other means. The vomit to caviar ratio on Twitter is way too high.
That's my main takeaway from this discussion. All the other points became secondary.