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>...Heck, most people on Hackers News don’t even have an actual business.

>The subject matter of the post drove businesses with real money to our site.

...from Hacker News? Anyone else find this rather contradictory?

There is a subset of HN users with successful businesses and quite a bit of money to throw at things, but I don't know how representative they are of the userbase as a whole (likely not very.) I think the followup sentence (They’re in some mystical stealth phase that they’ll likely never get out of.) is probably correct, although the tone seems unnecessarily snide (that of the set of HN users involved with startups, most can't be considered successful entrepreneurs, because the startups themselves aren't successful, don't actually exist yet, or because they themselves are employees and not owners.)

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