Comment by sfeng

5 days ago

If you’re a Cloudflare shareholder, Kenton has increased your net worth quite a bit. He is one of the few people who is so unreasonably capable he can and has changed the direction of a multibillion dollar company single handedly. It sounds hyperbolic, but it’s not in this particular case.

I’m also fairly convinced he didn’t capture one tenth of one percent of the value he created, so I’m not sure how anyone can argue this is ‘unfair’.

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laidoffamazon  5 days ago

As someone that was previously bullish on Workers but now fully disillusioned with a barely positive cost basis on it right now I disagree with this - if anything I feel burned for believing and continuing to believe.

Either way, people like me aren’t going to be able to capture even a tenth of the success of joining Google in 2005 or buying a $1m house in Palo Alto ~4 years after graduating (I’m 6.5 years out of graduating) because people like me aren’t as human as the folks that own this house.

  • alecco  5 days ago

    Take it easy. These kind of thought won't help you. It's a rough time out there but thing change. Our ancestors survived famines and war. We should be able to manage this.

    And yes, life is not fair. But don't waste it, it's finite.

  • newsclues  5 days ago

    "people like me aren’t as human as the folks that own this house"

    What do you mean? People aren't human if they do not have a certain level of wealth?

    Seems to imply that you may think people with less wealth aren't valuable or even human. What should people with less wealth than you feel?