<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jondubois</author><text>The problem is that investors are too easy when it comes to giving second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth chances... And they absolutely suck at giving first chances to the right people.&lt;p&gt;Investors just sit there and assume that the right people will find them, but they don&amp;#x27;t. The right people are too busy working to be chasing down investors 24&amp;#x2F;7.&lt;p&gt;The first-timers who end up getting funded over and over again are usually the ones who network 24&amp;#x2F;7 and their only real talent is seducing investors who confuse their well-rehearsed talk for passion and intelligence.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>No One Fails Anymore – Everybody ‘Pivots’</title><url>https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/08/29/magazine/in-our-cynical-age-no-one-fails-anymore-everybody-pivots.html</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>phoenixstrike</author><text>...including this article, which pivots from Cernovich to Silicon Valley to politics and Trump.&lt;p&gt;A far more interesting discussion would have been about the rampant neurosis of above-average (nationally speaking) educated young people in tech that rate themselves as being better than they actually are, leading to a deathly fear of failure and accountability (leading to &amp;quot;pivoting&amp;quot;), perhaps (IMO) coming from the psychological reluctance to take a good hard look in the mirror and admit that they are not as good&amp;#x2F;better than others as they think they are.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>No One Fails Anymore – Everybody ‘Pivots’</title><url>https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/08/29/magazine/in-our-cynical-age-no-one-fails-anymore-everybody-pivots.html</url></story>