[dooraven]

Also this is just lol

> The great entrepreneurs of our world are hardly motivated by money

Yeah come on like Bezos, Musk, Zuckerberg, Gates, Hoffman etc aren't motivated by money lol.

For a forum created by an accelerator, it is weirdly anti-success.

[amelius]

> For a forum created by an accelerator, it is weirdly anti-success.

It's not anti-success. HN applauds anyone making millions by doing real hard work that benefits everybody. What's frowned upon are these look-I-did-nothing-but-still-made-it-big stories.

[imiric]

> What's frowned upon are these look-I-did-nothing-but-still-made-it-big stories.

Seven years of acquiring skills in different domains, and two years of applying those skills, learning more along the way, grinding, failing, trying again, and building several successful products people are willing to pay for is "doing nothing"? What a ridiculous take.

People get rich nowadays by manipulating virtual numbers on screens, based on speculation and pure luck, which is much closer to "doing nothing", and we enthusiastically celebrate their success, yet someone uses their skills to build and sell products to people that enjoy using them, and we label them as lucky, lazy and show-offs. #smh

[satvikpendem]

They made something people want, the motto of this forum's accelerator, but when it's not something you'd want, then it's not "real hard work," apparently.

[slashdev]

This is not one of those stories, yet that’s how some people here are reacting.

This person did a lot of work, including drudge work like support, building a Twitter following, building a newsletter audience, etc.

[PUSH_AX]

Ah ok, some success is ok, some is not.

[blantonl]

I think the issue is there's this undercurrent of self-promotion with these types of posts. Just like the people 20 years ago who would post their $20K adsense checks on their blog posts saying "you too can be successful like me (FLEX)"

[zpeti]

Did you ever think these people want some feedback and admiration and recognition for what they’ve done? Being a solopreneur is really really lonely.

And no one cares what you are doing. Posts like this are about getting recognition. Making $42k a month doesn’t actually get you any recognition by itself. Maybe buying champagne in a club from it does, but a lot of people don’t like that kind of attention.

People on HN are just so resentful and want to see the bad in posts like this it’s really sad.

[eertami]

Are these people entrepreneurs? What risks did they take. I wager almost none, they were fine whatever happened.

[somsak2]

How would you define an entrepreneurs? I think risk-taking correlates with entrepreneurship, but I don't think I'd use it in a definition.

[rpastuszak]

FWIW, none of those people are whom I’d consider great entrepreneurs.

[dooraven]

please name some then

[williamtrask]

Fwiw I don’t think those are “the great entrepreneurs”. They’re rich and famous, yes, but “THE great entrepreneurs”?. I’d prefer Tesla, Jobs, and even JCR Licklider over them.

[dooraven]

are you confusing inventors and entrepreneurs? Cause no way you'd consider Tesla a great entrepreneur, he died penniless and JCR Licklider same thing - great inventor and innovator yeah. Great Entrepreneur no.

Of the 3 you listed only Jobs qualifies.