Patrick works at Stripe.

Before that, he consulted and ran a bingo card creator.

I love the dude and his advice has been invaluable to me--but it has been invaluable because he is not a guy who has run startups, he's a guy who's had to make a buck.

patio11 (Patrick McKenzie of kalzumeus.com) hasn't blogged on his personal site since September 2017. His current blogging seems today to support Stripe's business objectives, as he publishes to their site.

The offensive bar sure gets lower these days! I'm surprised the point is controversial. It would be great if you were right; I'm just not seeing the articles. This one stood out as an exception. Also, we all love both Patricks but the one who runs Stripe doesn't blog anymore (does he?) so I think I get Stripe in my column on this.

it's offensive only because you choose to be offended, it actually tells more about yourself than parent.

> people running successful startups don't have time to write about it, while people who have wound down their companies do

tell us what kind of mental gymnastics you have to go through to go from above statement to come up with such a twisted interpretation as "it implies that if someone manages to find the time to write about how they're running their company they probably aren’t successful". Since it's HN, I'm sure you can show how you came to that conclusion, in logical expression.