I agree with most of your post. I was trying my best to find common ground with sama's perspective in his. Because I have had similarly crappy situations that did make me incredibly frustrated. You bring up good points though:
> What I am about write is blasphemy in this community, but needs to be said.
> Contributions to a startup are not quantifiable. There are truism that float around the startup community like, "Ideas are worthless, execution is everything." these are helpful motivation tools but they create a black and white world, in a universe that is multi-dimensional.
Amen, who gives a damn how fast you clmb the ladder if it's placed in the wrong spot? And it's such a simplistic point; often times the whole point of execution is to find a better idea. These ideas could be discovered through a combination of mental reflection, talking to customers, building prototype, ...
> I think the startup community and this post is evidence of it believes that what they know is above the law.
> This is a simple case of a dispute about money. Pretending it is about good guys and bad guys is being dishonest to yourself and others.
Yep. I don't care how many Airbnb's and Dropbox's you fund, you don't get to say what constitutes good and bad in a community.
At the end of the day, I think Sam got frustrated, acted a bit impulsively, and probably regrets how things turned out with the original post. But hey, mistakes build leaders, so if someone as public as him can reflect on it then all the better.
> so if someone as public as him can reflect on it then all the better.
I eagerly await this much anticipated reflection. For what I can tell he is a sincere, integrity driven, human being. Money has a way to messing with us and causing us to do all sorts of things we regret. I just hope he can see past his blind spots once the initial frustration wears off.
> What I am about write is blasphemy in this community, but needs to be said. > Contributions to a startup are not quantifiable. There are truism that float around the startup community like, "Ideas are worthless, execution is everything." these are helpful motivation tools but they create a black and white world, in a universe that is multi-dimensional.
Amen, who gives a damn how fast you clmb the ladder if it's placed in the wrong spot? And it's such a simplistic point; often times the whole point of execution is to find a better idea. These ideas could be discovered through a combination of mental reflection, talking to customers, building prototype, ...
> I think the startup community and this post is evidence of it believes that what they know is above the law. > This is a simple case of a dispute about money. Pretending it is about good guys and bad guys is being dishonest to yourself and others.
Yep. I don't care how many Airbnb's and Dropbox's you fund, you don't get to say what constitutes good and bad in a community.
At the end of the day, I think Sam got frustrated, acted a bit impulsively, and probably regrets how things turned out with the original post. But hey, mistakes build leaders, so if someone as public as him can reflect on it then all the better.