I do not, as a principle, click on Tim Ferris links, or that wine guy, or various other self-promoters. A hardline, yes, but it's a choice I have been happy with.

I agree 100% about avoiding the self-promotion nonsense, but I would make the following exception for "that wine guy" (Gary Vaynerchuk): his wine videos are terrific! I learned a ton about wine and the wine industry from http://tv.winelibrary.com/ (and later, http://dailygrape.com/) when he was still actively producing videos, and I was extremely disappointed when he stopped doing this to focus on being a "social media expert".

As mentioned in another comment, the OP is a bunch of excerpts from the book: "The Launch Pad: Inside Y Combinator, Silicon Valley’s Most Exclusive School for Startups", written by Randall Strossen.

Tim Ferris does a small intro.

The Y Combinator book is by Randall Stross, not Strossen. Strossen is a writer of a bunch of fitness and weight training books.

Fair enough, but in that case why comment on the articles if you haven't looked at them?

Because the headline, as phrased, makes "ABC" seem to be an statement by Ferris.

Nevertheles, I can assure you there is higher entropy in my shot in the dark response than the linked article, and I haven't clicked on the linked article :-) Call it a hunch, wisdom, or arrogance :-P

That is nothing to boast about, given that high entropy data is just noise.

:-)