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Really interested in how accuracy improves with the scale of the data set. Non-invasive thought-to-action would be a whole new interaction paradigm.

Founding and being the CEO of Shopify, a $48bn company and one of the best-performing stocks of the last few years, isn't "the top"? Different people have different styles that wor…

I'm not sure I agree that quality isn't a major driver of success. Two counterpoints: - Shopify came in and dominated Magento and others via a much better quality product (later th…

Welp let me be your first counterexample. I work downtown and I LOVE the dockless scooters. I usually walk or take Muni, but I've found myself using these pretty frequently to go a…

Unfortunately this wouldn't really work. If you're selling insurance, you're going to have a strong incentive to play it safe. If you run a business, you're going to be furious if …

Yep you're totally right, sorry.

My fault. I totally misunderstood. Sorry.

That's a pretty uninformed opinion. YC is a collection of smart people trying to build things... That "fancy apartment" is the cheapest place you can find in Mountain View with 4 p…

I hear what you're saying, but I'm not sure I agree with the argument that this approach is not in their interest (I also use an ad blocker by the way, not preaching just being pra…

Really interesting, thank you for sharing. Discovered resdet which is something I've been searching for a long time!

Teespring is the company you are going to wish you had started working at a year ago six months from now. Andreesen Horowitz backed, mother approved, we are an innovative web-based…

Have you considered trying another way to monetize? Selling merchandise, especially if you have an engaged audience, tends to have a higher effective CPM ($20-100+ in our experienc…

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Just wanted to say that we're excited to be a part of the non-profit side of YCombinator. It's been humbling to have Watsi working with us in our office and watching the amazing th…

It's always amazing to see people travel the world and make an impact. It's easy to be hyper-focused on growth metrics and silicon valley that you can lose sight of the bigger pict…

I see what you're trying to say, but money is often not the issue - it's the connections and expertise that are so valuable. In my humble, and admittedly limited, opinion the netwo…

Hi Nawitus. I completely understand that line of thinking, and it should have been especially true for us given that we'd been running for about 1 year and had $1m in sales at the …

Thanks for posting this Sam! If anyone thinking about YC has any follow up questions, happy to answer them here. It truly was an amazing experience for us.

Exciting stuff - love watching Stripe evolve.

I refer to myself as the non-technical co-founder all the time. I'm a male, and the CEO of our company. In my personal experience, I've never heard anyone equate "non-technical co-…

I agree the penalty is brutal, If they had dropped 5 ranking vs. 5 pages I think the punishment would suit the crime (provided that Google didn't look at their links and find that …

Also re: your P.s., it doesn't matter if they were only retweeting blogs they interested in or supported. They were asking people to add links (for SEO) that had zero relation to t…