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*Two IMO gold medal winners. Three ISO gold medal winners. Six ISO gold medals collectively :) - Yu Deng: IMO gold [1] - Jacob Tsimerman: 2x IMO gold [2] - John Pardon: 3x IOI gold…

Related — these videos give a sense of how someone might actually go about thinking through and solving these kinds of problems: - A 3Blue1Brown video on a particularly nice and un…

I believe this list was compiled by Andrej Karpathy (director of AI at Tesla). I thought it would be useful to the HN community given its high signal-to-noise ratio: 1) You can get…

+1. And I'd add to that that sometimes there's significant work in the pre-buy phase as well: - Researching what your options are / what's already out there. - Comparing different …

Two other great examples where you can get a peek of early versions of companies/products that ended up being huge: Wayback Machine and Show HN. e.g. Wayback machine: - Airbnb (200…

Just this week: - Momentus: $1.2B IPO ( https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/07/momentus-the-latest-space-st... ) - Segment: acquired for $3.2B ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24735…

Relevant PG tweet: > assuming I got in [to YC] I would not get sucked into raising a huge amount on Demo Day. > I would raise maybe $500k, keep the company small for the first year…

Two observations: 1) Shipping-and-iterating is uncomfortably hard . Putting your product out there in front of users is painful . It's a lot easier to just constantly brainstorm id…

> bigger pool sizes ensure potential for a breakout company Yes, but the payout gets distributed among a larger number of companies. Increasing the pool size lowers the variance, b…

The FounderPool website specifically mentions: > You contribute 1% of your equity into your pool. My understanding is that if a founder owns 30% (say) of the company when they join…

Have you actually modeled out the potential payouts? How did you choose the 1% number (percent of their equity that each founder contributes) as well as the pool size of My quick b…

> The default YC valuation of $125k/0.07 = ~$1.8M is way too low for us This is the wrong way to look at it. Instead, ask yourself: would you exchange 7% of your company to join th…