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I may predate you! We were shared an office with Heroku back during their/our YC days. Fun memory - James and bitscribe helped me with my prior startup. I remember them brainstormi…

You have the dynamic mostly correct, but the motivations reside more at the partner level than the VC firm level. Individual partner IRRs are determined by the mark up they can rep…

I've been so impressed by the ambitions of YC since sama took over, as well the team that's been built to support it. pg's biggest contribution to YC may be finding sama and giving…

This is such good news for YC!

Really excited to see this launched! Congrats on shipping Aaron and Jen!

We're alums (YC W12 and S09). We do mock interviews every batch. If you're interested, reach me at jason at 42floors.

I wrote a post on how to defeat delayed sleep phase disorder. The key is light regulation. See HN thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1409107

My mistake--typo fixed. Thanks!

It's actually less of question of whether you're right or wrong. Since most of us are usually wrong most of the time. Really good engineers don't want to be told what to do, becaus…

you could grab sortofobstreperous.com though...

Thanks! Fixing it now.

We’re opening up our New York office this summer and we’re looking for the perfect person to run it. Getting it right is the number one strategic priority in the company. You’ll ha…

You may be thinking… Wait! What are you guys doing?! All job posts on Hacker News are supposed to be for hackers. And you’re kinda right. I know the audience here are hackers. But …

You may be thinking… Wait! What are you guys doing?! All job posts on Hacker News are supposed to be for hackers. And you’re kinda right. I know the audience here are hackers. But …