Maybe a difference could be made in how they explain how they did it. It might be possible to share some valuable lesson learned without exposing the business.
I personally find valuable to see examples of people next to me who managed to succeed. It means to me that it could not just be a dream.
It's obviously not what you meant, and it'll obviously take more than a week, but I think Mark Zuckerberg being in the news for getting one billion dollars, cash, for just a small portion of his stock in his hardly monetized social network is...just asking for trouble.
There is great value in it. Greater still for the wrong people.
> You really think they might bet copied and eventually failed because they shared their stories on HN or something?
I don't 'think' this, I know this for a fact, I've seen it 3 times up close now. And I fully expect there to be a fourth within a week, see the current HN homepage.