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Paul Graham's Mixergy interview - How YC helped 172 startups take off

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Re: Paul Graham's Mixergy interview - How YC helped 172 startups take off

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Post by yannis »

patio11 wrote: post #22
Brushfire wrote: post #17

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Couldn't agree more. Its amazing how entitled some people feel. Restaurants are probably the best example, especially when people are outrageous to the waiter, hostess, or barback when problems are clearly outside of their control (kitchen issues, staffing issues). Other good places to judge this characteristic: Taxi Cabs and customer-support calls (you dont need to be on the call, simply listening to the person will…

True story: recently, I was having dinner with a young lady and she discovered a hair in her food. She said "Call the waiter over and chew him out for me." If dates could be awarded Darwin Awards, that line won two.

Nice story, I hope you said 'sorry love that's mine' and poked your fingers in her food to take it out:)

Re: Paul Graham's Mixergy interview - How YC helped 172 startups take off

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Post by bmr »

fleaflicker wrote: post #26
alabut wrote: post #23

I know I'm not the only poker player on here that loved that Matt Maroon was the first person PG thought of when singling out characteristics of founders. And even better - now it makes our biweekly YC poker game actually feel productive. I'm only half-joking. I definitely don't think it's a coincidence that I started playing the game over the same period of years that I grew the itch to join and launch startups. It…

i thought he mentioned matt as somebody easily capable of duping him in the interview

I agree. He seemed to think better of it as it came out and went on a riff about poker players.

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Post by grinich »

neurotech1 wrote: post #20
weaksauce wrote: post #11

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As an aside, I cannot stand people being rude to people that they perceive as the receptionist or somehow lesser in stature to them. Take someone out to lunch and watch how they interact with the waiter and that will tell you a lot about their character.

Did anyone see the show with Richard Branson, "Quest for the best" or something. He almost sent somebody home for failing to assist the taxi driver with the suitcases, after the taxi got stuck. Nobody realized until later that the taxi driver was actually Richard Branson himself.

The Rebel Billionaire: Branson's Quest for the Best (2004)

Re: Paul Graham's Mixergy interview - How YC helped 172 startups take off

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Post by kn0thing »

kn0thing wrote: post #16
fleaflicker wrote: post #14

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not to mention that the reddits won jessica over by being "cute"

I wanted to read these comments before watching the interview... big mistake.

OK, I'm listening to the interview. And confirming that everyone now knows about "the muffins."

Andrew, I love what you're doing at Mixergy, but you weren't giving enough credit to Steve. I hope I didn't say in our interview that there was something in me that made YC call us back or something in me that they saw. If I did (sorry, it's late here and I'm too lazy to relisten to our interview) I'm taking this comment field to correct myself and stress that for whatever reason we got called back (evidently it's a muffin-ness thing, that is, who we were - not our idea) was at the very least because of Steve and me and at most because of Steve alone.

Keep in mind, I was the only non-technical co-founder during that first round of YC. If only I (or me and my clone) had applied to YC, I can guarantee I/we wouldn't have even gotten invited for an interview.

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Post by alabut »

fleaflicker wrote: post #26
alabut wrote: post #23

I know I'm not the only poker player on here that loved that Matt Maroon was the first person PG thought of when singling out characteristics of founders. And even better - now it makes our biweekly YC poker game actually feel productive. I'm only half-joking. I definitely don't think it's a coincidence that I started playing the game over the same period of years that I grew the itch to join and launch startups. It…

i thought he mentioned matt as somebody easily capable of duping him in the interview

He mentioned Matt in that context but also said that he was so impressed with how tough he thought Matt was and was glad to see it was true.

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Post by [deleted] »

sushi wrote: post #24
icey wrote: post #8

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There is something like YCombinator in India: http://iaccelerator.org/

Nobody has heard of this Indian version and more than that: 1)What are the credentials of the guy/organization who started it? Well IIM, the parent behind this clone produces managers and in Tech World, Managers are not good at anything. As Jason Fried said in that bigthink interview, the managers just interrupt and don't let the real doers do their job. 2)How many companies they have invested in? Well, not many. 3)L…

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sushi wrote: post #24
icey wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is something like YCombinator in India: http://iaccelerator.org/

Nobody has heard of this Indian version and more than that: 1)What are the credentials of the guy/organization who started it? Well IIM, the parent behind this clone produces managers and in Tech World, Managers are not good at anything. As Jason Fried said in that bigthink interview, the managers just interrupt and don't let the real doers do their job. 2)How many companies they have invested in? Well, not many. 3)L…

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Re: Paul Graham's Mixergy interview - How YC helped 172 startups take off

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Post by pg »

toadpipe wrote: post #29
a123b wrote: post #25

Paul, if you're here and have the time, can you define what you mean by "wimps"?

People who give up too early, for any reason.

That's pretty good. Basically, people who are prone to give up when they encounter resistance; people who are the opposite of tough.

Re: Paul Graham's Mixergy interview - How YC helped 172 startups take off

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Post by cakesy »

Brushfire wrote: post #17
weaksauce wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As an aside, I cannot stand people being rude to people that they perceive as the receptionist or somehow lesser in stature to them. Take someone out to lunch and watch how they interact with the waiter and that will tell you a lot about their character.

Couldn't agree more. Its amazing how entitled some people feel. Restaurants are probably the best example, especially when people are outrageous to the waiter, hostess, or barback when problems are clearly outside of their control (kitchen issues, staffing issues). Other good places to judge this characteristic: Taxi Cabs and customer-support calls (you dont need to be on the call, simply listening to the person will…

Ok, I have to talk about this. I am always nice and polite to poeople, but somehow I see people that who are actually rude and obnoxious, get treated better in every way. At a shop, restaurant, taxi, you name it. Rude people get there way, sure when they leave the clerks whinge about them.

No matter how much people complain about rude people, if they actually treat them better, what do they expect.

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