You're going to have to get used to it. These kind of self congratulatory "I left great job X to start my own company" stories have been staples of HN since forever.
I left a big company (not Google) to persue my own startup and fucked it right up leaving myself in debt for 5 years :)
The sickening bit was to offset the debt, I sold the codebase to another company which did quite well out of it. They offered to hire me in but I couldn't face it.