[ahoyhere]

Yes, but the PG message - and the message of other VCs - is not "Well, here's one valid way to make a lot of money (with investment and an exit), but you can also make lots of money with a SaaS."

It's "This is the way to do business."

That's the issue.

[pg]

That's false. I have never used the word entrepreneur in an essay, except once in a phrase in scare quotes. My essays are addressed strictly to the small subset of entrepreneurs who are starting startups.

If people interpret what I say more broadly than I mean, there's not much I can do about that, but if you go back and look at the actual words I use, I could not be more explicit.

[ahoyhere]

I didn't use the word entrepreneur, either. That's a bad stab at replying to me, and you know it. You often imply, although in not so many words, that the essence of what it means to be a "hacker" is to do a "startup".

[pg]

I certainly don't believe that starting a startup is the essence of being a hacker. What a completely crazy idea. How could I believe that Ken Thompson was missing the essence of being a hacker?

I wish you'd be either less contentious or less mistaken. It would be fine if you were one or the other, but having to deal with both simultaneously gets kind of wearing after a while.