1. That just isn't true

2. If it were true, you don't think that early investment (in time, energy, ingenuity, whatever) pays off later? That you need a good foundation to build a house?

Source: I was at reddit until 2011.

This all sounds very personal, do you know Alexis?

Oh he did actually build some stuff? But it doesn't meet my arbitrary criteria for notability/novelty!