[brudgers]

By this logic, HN'ers should downvote any anecdote describing successfully exiting a startup because statistics show that the vast majority of startups fail and these anecdotes describing success unduly influence the thinking of entrepreneurs.

[Symmetry]

Only if its offered as a counterexample to the proposition that most startups fail.

[brudgers]

One might suggest that that such a proposition is an underlying premise of HN.