[rokhayakebe]

Thank you for the feedback.

Hacker News is probably the last place someone will get advices about not starting a startup. It was named "Startup News" to begin with, hence its Pro-Startup audience.

The reason why people here push others to do a startup is because they are doing it themselves and find it quite rewarding. Not necessarily a monetary reward, but a personal satisfaction. If they see potential in someone, then it is normal to ask "Why not give it a try?".

Also I do not believe anyone ever left their extremely satisfying job because commenters push them to do so.

Apparently 20 venture capitalists told the Skype team they were not going to fund them. They were all wrong to the tune of 3B dollars and 10 millions simultaneous connection as of this writing.

This is why I am still confident PG or any investors can make a good judgment about who should start, but not who should not.