I think you&#x27;re acting just the slightest bit rude here, frankly. &quot;Entrepreneurial ambition&quot; != &quot;Silicon Valley&#x2F;Ponzi scheme&#x2F;unicorn&quot;. Starting a business doesn&#x27;t mean you have to join the VC&#x2F;SV&#x2F;startup treadmill. You can get away with doing the same thing that the vast majority of entrepreneurs have done throughout history: take a skill you know, strike out on your own, and start offering to make things or perform a service in exchange for money. It wasn&#x27;t until the internet came along that you could become a billionaire in under a decade doing it. That&#x27;s a distortion that recent history has introduced. The vast majority of entrepreneurs are not SV titans - they&#x27;re small businesses.<p>I don&#x27;t have much respect for folks who denigrate those sorts of ambitions, especially on HN. On top of helping to continue to distort the overall shape of entrepreneurship, it&#x27;s awfully close to a personal attack, as it&#x27;s basically saying &quot;Your dreams are stupid&quot;.