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by nroach 5774 days ago
Accolades about one's toughness and perseverance are also more credible when they're not self-gratifying.

If this article was written by PG about WePay, that would be one thing. Even if its 100% true, it sounds less impressive when the author is telling others how great someone else thinks he (or his company) is. It just came off a bit too self-congratulatory to me. And that's saying a lot in the already narcissistic world of startups.