....and you believe the reason for this is because, although they are members and are reading the thread, they do not feel qualified to comment, thus supporting your argument?
The "if you haven't done exactly the same yourself, you shouldn't comment" has never been true. Otherwise there would be nobody commenting on anything other than the people personally involved, and life would be rather boring. FWIW, I have started a hardware company that I later sold to another company. Let me guess... it only counts if it was sold for at least $740MM?
What I'm saying is we're all just talking here, and total outsiders with whatever went on... nobody knows what his plan may have been when he rejected 740M. And yes.. on top of that, I think that the end of the market he got to - the crazy money end, works very differently to the standard business worth models that normal small businesses and larger established businesses are valued with. It's not something anyone posting here has experience with.
I just think it's really refreshing that someone actually wanted to keep their business and do the best they could with it rather than the instant something gets hyped, wait for an offer to sell out to someone with more money than sense. For whatever crazy reason, he wanted to continue what he started. He did his best, and it crashed, and in retrospect he could have had a mountain of cash plus no company, now he just has no company - he took a risk, and failed.
But what's the real disaster for him here? At the end of the day he'll probably not get to make 740M ever again - but he is young, and likely has many years ahead of him - we can agree that he will have plenty more opportunity to work on cool things and build stuff for people and learn from his mistakes here.
Compare to the guy who sold minecraft - money or not, he sure seemed pretty unhappy with his lot in life once he let go of the best thing he ever created and handed it all to someone else.