I do think it's very relevant to bring up someone's background, education, profession, beliefs and more when deciding whether to make a life-changing decision based on their advice. I'm sure there are >0 people who are thinking about selling their stock portfolios right now, and this post might be the one to tip them over. They deserve to know whether you are a financial analyst or an AI founder, and whether your own decision was made fully analytically or based on the position of the planets and stars.

> Star Path is an AI guide that uses your astrology birth chart to help you understand what you're feeling, what it's happening, and what to do next. [...]

> My take on astrology is that it's a framework that some people can use to live a better life, and it's worked: many of our users thank us for helping repair their relationships, catapult their businesses, or just feel better about who they are.

In case you're interesting in following this advice and want to dig into the author's credibility and credentials.

There could be a 15% market dip tomorrow and your investments would still be positive from a year ago.

There could be a 30% dip (among the top 5-7 market crashes in history) and you'd be set back less than 2 years.

Everything being said about the economy today was also true last year and the year before that, but holding was still the best decision. Unless you are retiring in the short term (in which case you shouldn't be so deep in the stock market anyways) panic selling is always a terrible move.

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Depending on what your co-founder is walking away with, you may want to negotiate a better exit. If there is nothing else, then more than the code work on selling yourself to an interested company.

Depends on whether the cofounder is using the current company's assets towards the next venture (and it seems like the answer is no, so there is really no basis for that ask).

IMO this is good advice for those that fall in the middle of these two categories, i.e. slightly technical people who run into problems and copy-paste solutions from Stack Overflow hoping that something will work.

> you’re not running some random shell script from a random author

This is exactly what is happening in the vast majority of these cases. These users are going to be vary if linked to an executable or installer, but "hey just run this simple line of code" sounds like a very appealing solution.

Play that again in your head