I dunno, awareness of world history? "Cultural Revolution", to those who have even a fairly basic grasp of Things That Happened Outside Startup Land, is always going to be inextricably linked to China and 1966.
I think the person you replied to was looking to make a "Great Leap Forward" wordplay.
Given that the revolutionary history of modern China shared adequate similarities to be mapped to a entrepreneurial context of narration, the first 30-year of the communist reign after 1949 looks too much alike a fundamentalist Marx-Leninist experiment, and the revolutionary practices quickly transformed to doctrinal fanaticism leading to disastrous outcome.