Did you read his post at all? He knew what she was saying and addressed it clearly:
> What [AOC] meant was that it's impossible to get that rich without doing something bad — without cheating in some way... The reason [my founder's] startup was growing so fast was simply that users loved what she'd built. So she could feel from her own experience how wrong [AOC] was. She wasn't exploiting anyone. Exactly the opposite in fact. The reason her startup was growing so fast was that she and her cofounder had been working their asses off to make their users happy, and as a result the users had been telling their friends. And that gets you exponential growth.
In other words, this founder being on a trajectory toward billionaire status, through doing little but working to provide something of value to those willing to pay for it, belies the claim that you must be doing something unethical and cannot earn one's way to a billion dollars.
Off topic but how's IH going? I haven't seen any new podcast episodes, have you guys stopped doing them for now?
IH is doing well, but I stopped the podcast years ago. No plans to bring it back currently. Although it's certainly an exciting time for startups and the last few years of it would've been pretty nuts.
I'm not sure if you remember but I used to run the IH meetups for Washington DC. I'll be in SF for a couple weeks if you wanted to meet up, no worries if not though.
I do remember! I'm always happy to come across you and other IHers on HN occasionally. I left SF long ago, though
Ah got it. Where are you now? I'm traveling around the US this summer so would be cool to make something happen if possible.