Those kids did seem to prove him wrong though.
The kids did not get any help from the goverment or any one else. All they had, was their parents, who invested in their business, without expecting any money back. And provided them with equipment, instructions, raw material and did ad service in the neighboorhood for them.
But no damn goverment helped them succed!
That the parents used goverment infrastructure etc. to make all this happen... we don't need to talk about that.