Not really. There is a niche of social companies (twitter,facebook,google search engine) that make money from ads. There is a niche of media companies (youtube) that make money from ads. There is a nice of startups which make money from Funding&#x2F;IPOs. These niches are a focus of HN and get talked about way out of proportion of their representational percentage.<p>Most most tech companies make products and get funding from sales (netflix, amazon, apple, ibm, microsoft, 99% of the Enterprise and 99% of small-medium market).