Venture Capitalist: A Rise to Riches (1981)

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> ''But at this stage of my life I don't do it for the money,'' said Mr. Adler, who just sold his Upper East Side apartment for $2.5 million. ''I'm really a dilettante, and this is like going to a university and getting paid for it. I love it.''

Love it.

HN promoting VC - business as usual.

However, what I would love to read would be a little different: bootstrapping success stories!

Because that's really hacking the system, for fun AND profit!

Bootstrapping is indeed the truly grueling and rewarding way to run a business. Unfortunately, on this point the financial interests of YC and the broad hysteria of the startup dream are against you.

You could read about bootstrapping stories here: https://www.indiehackers.com/

There have been a great many bootstrapping success stories on HN over the years. It's a perennial topic.

You are correct: every now and then, there is a bootstrapping story posted.

But it seems to me the VC:bootstrap ratio is very unequal for submitted articles, while going the opposite way for comments.

Maybe it's just a question of scale (more bootstrappers = more commenters). Or maybe I'm just not in the target audience for HN

https://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/03/05/venture-capitalist-p...

He was so right about facebook and microsoft back in 2012

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