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I love the posts about how YC was better back in the day. It was the same, it's the same. It's just bigger and there's more timeline now to reflect. If you think the partners (the …

If you are the majority owner, or stand to profit vastly more than your team from an endeavor, then you are never a servant. Using terms like "servant" to appear humble, when the e…

The reason there is not a lot of dialogue around this is because the numbers don't work for all parties at the right time. When you have a small founder team, you need capital for …

I guess it's better than the 7% you gotta pay to get an Orange username on HN.

About 2/3rds of truck owners don't use the bed much at all. https://www.thedrive.com/news/26907/you-dont-need-a-full-siz...

kinda buried the lede, didn't they? "However, according to the EMA, the benefits of both mRNA shots in preventing COVID-19 continue to outweigh the risks, the regulator said, echoi…

it's very possible for you to have the experience you're describing from a system, and for the system to be predatory and extractive. Just as many people live in nice suburbs and w…

Where do I sign up to LP for the AKH firehose fund?

Talking "Why does capitalism work so well?" during a pandemic caused in large part by crony capitalism is the sort of bravado energy I need right now.

Many of the comments in this thread do not understand the concept of free speech from a legal perspective. Free speech does not mean that you have the right to say or distribute wh…

I agree that the vast majority of VC is just a shitty index fund and crapshoot. I do think that YC, from a Performance perspective is light years ahead of all the others that launc…

I agree that this article is a fluff piece but, unless you worked with him at YC or seen how he worked there, the idea that he wasn’t doing a lot to make YC successful is wrong. It…

Her work has had profound impact and I’m excited to read her book. It’s amazing to still see the ramifications of her work today. For example, in this very thread it shows just how…

"Now, persuasion is a generic skill—it’s probably not enough to build a career on. You need to combine it in a skill stack, as Scott Adams writes." Naval quotes Scott Adams, dilber…

It's hard to edify and spend that time when you routinely flag and kill my comments. You claim that HN is "better than this" but Naval's post is totally devoid of insight. It is ha…

This isn’t a shallow dismissal. I’m literally quoting a part of the piece that is absurdly bad. Would it be edifying for you and others if I explained why I think suggesting that a…

“In many cases, the person is way overqualified. Someone with multiple graduate degrees might be running the CEO’s laundry because that’s the most important thing at the moment.“ T…

"Our goal, as Cthulhu, is to support initiatives designed to rise from the dark depths of R’lyeh (metaphorically speaking!) and end up destroying or at least disrupting, some marke…

You should do more digging into how "doing business in China" works before you make this statement.

Personally I was really disappointed when YC opened up shop in China - to me it really revealed a Profits over People approach and was pretty brazen at the time. Happy to see (for …

healthcare?

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It's not the funding that is the problem. It's a cultural issue inside of OakDOT and the city gov't. Oakland has $600m ready for transport projects: https://www.sfchronicle.com/bay…

Does this mean you'll now have zero time for tennis?