He doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground
The author of that piece, Couts, I mean.
There was nothing factual there, no examination of the system that was built or the organizations involved, nothing but vague general bitching; I've read much better criticisms elsewhere. But what really exposes his pure hackishness (and not in the good sense) is the attempt at making a comparison to famous commercial Web sites:
But for the sake of putting the monstrous amount of money into perspective, here are a few figures to chew on: Facebook, which received its first investment in June 2004, operated for a full six years before surpassing the $500 million mark in June 2010. Twitter, created in 2006, managed to get by with only $360.17 million in total funding until a $400 million boost in 2011. Instagram ginned up just $57.5 million in funding before Facebook bought it for (a staggering) $1 billion last year. And LinkedIn and Spotify, meanwhile, have only raised, respectively, $200 million and $288 million.
Jesus F. Christ what an impressive pile of pure bullshit. I've built dozens of Web sites bigger than Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn and Spotify...on opening day! How anyone with two brain cells can compare commercial websites that grew organically from zero users to millions over a period of years, to a web site that had to be designed to accommodate millions on opening day, is beyond all comprehension. What a really stupid argument.
Sounded good to you, though, didn't it Tom? Must've felt like a lifeline. Your desperation has completely destroyed your common sense.