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bank account. tech startups have huge balances compared to lifetime

I was in YC >5 years ago when batches were in person and in the large-two-digit range. The experience of YC is completely different. The class sizes are in the hundreds and many ti…

You can, but when you're making that much above what a series A or B company pays, it's not a useful number. Having multiple offers that are comparable is what matters. A company c…

> I also talked to a few fintech companies. I entered the discussions with pre-existing biases that these places are stressfull, not innovative but well paying. The conversations c…

I agree. We tried using TripleByte for hiring but what they screen for and what matters are entirely different. A founder we knew got an angry missive from one of the TripleByte fo…

I have had this exact experience with Triplebyte both as an engineer and as a hiring manager. I simply do not care about things like, “what does malloc return”. I do not care what …

Not to mention the preceding paragraph: > When I started at Stripe, I asked to delay my start date until after a family vacation, but my manager just told me to start sooner and ta…

His reply is after hours upon hours of getting torn apart for doubling, tripling, twenty-times-ing down on his power trip. And he still believes that some ethical line was crossed.…

What IP was stolen? The idea of running code from a web editor? The _button placement_? There’s nothing here that says he’s stolen code or any IP. The CEO doesn’t even claim that h…

had the same experience with Aileen. Many VCs, founders, and DNI leaders have echoed that All Raise is primarily a way for VCs to improve their personal brand around women in tech.…

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23280811

All over this thread you are responding about the details not being public. The existence of the job search itself is the issue. I'm not sure what's not getting through about that.…

Opt-In doesn't help them achieve their product goals. Triplebyte as founded isn't working so they're trying to take a valuable asset they have (engineers looking for jobs) to compe…

I tried "find hot local singles in your area" and the top result was /r/vinyls actually very impressed

As a VC, marketing is part of the job. Perhaps the most important part of the job. Getting LPs to invest in your fund encourages strong personal brand building. Getting startups to…

In that case will you add to your data policy that user data is destroyed in the event of a transfer of ownership? If your promise is genuine then there is no difference for you in…

would be good to hear what they plan on doing instead. YC China was a bet at doing something different. With that gone—and idk if it should have stayed or gone.. sometimes experime…

It’s interesting to watch the disconnect between the outwardly liberal/left side of Silicon Valley and its complicity in these things. Take one example, Garry Tan was an early memb…

Maybe I'm misunderstanding your target customer. Are you only focused on enterprise? The pricing comes across as something like "forced obsolescence." Forced handicapping? You migh…

my dude why're you talking in latin this ain't pompeii

Same experience with the Tic Tac Toe, then again with the rest of the interview. There were a lot of Googlable boilerplate questions (e.g. "what does malloc return?", "what's a blo…

I don't think the comment you're pointing to is saying that she should have done more, but that others in the company should have; that to expect her to have done more is lacking i…

I think this differs from the election in that we, Silicon Valley, have tacitly assumed that "things are different here", that 2017 San Francisco is different than 2017 Louisiana. …

If I'd seen this in a horror movie 10 years ago, I'd probably have laughed. There is something about it being real that truly terrifies me.

Great article. Even if startup equity is a gamble, everyone should benefit equally if it pays off. Who's going to invest the energy to build something world-changing if they can't …