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Comment by lovich

14 hours ago

“Forget it Jake, it’s Chinatown”

You’re on ycombinator, a forum for startups. A non zero amount of people here would do exactly what Holmes did for money.

> A non zero amount of people here would do exactly what Holmes did for money.

To go even further, "fake it til you make it" used to be a mantra lots of startup founders followed, and the whole story about how reddit got started with puppet-accounts to make it look busy when it was just three guys in a bedroom, was hailed as a successful strategy for growing startups.