> Why is an account that hasn’t posted in 7 years posting this?

This breaks the HN guideline against insinuating astroturfing without evidence. Please don't do that here—it poisons the well.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

It's a lengthy narrative profile of building a valley/alley style startup (which happens to be the topic of this here message board) in what's arguably the world's most prestigious source of very well written long form profiles.

I rarely post and mostly ready or comment but found this as interesting start up story. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯