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Y Combinator's Hardware Guy Leaves After 14 Months

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Re: Y Combinator's Hardware Guy Leaves After 14 Months

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Post by baby »

WalterBright wrote: post #37
birken wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Having read basically every news article ever about the startup I was involved in, they get the most basic, easily checkable facts like: What year was it founded? What does the company do? Who is the CEO? wrong at least half of the time. And they get the more complicated facts wrong much more often, but that is because they generally directly printing either what the founder tells them or something they think that is…

I learned that when there was a natural gas explosion in the building I worked in in the 80s (nobody was hurt). I recorded several TV news broadcasts on it, and every one got the basic facts wrong in different ways. Things like one called the building a warehouse (it was an office building). There were no political issues nor agendas nor money at stake, the news reporters just didn't make any effort to be correct. I'…

Story time. I build an app and I got interviewed by a local newspaper:

"Is the app secure?"

"Nope, but it's in my plans to start encrypting user's data at some point"

The next week (she didn't ask me for a review or anything) the newspaper printed: "[me] built an app encrypting all of its users' data"

Re: Y Combinator's Hardware Guy Leaves After 14 Months

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Post by theoh »

zubat wrote: post #60
WalterBright wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I learned that when there was a natural gas explosion in the building I worked in in the 80s (nobody was hurt). I recorded several TV news broadcasts on it, and every one got the basic facts wrong in different ways. Things like one called the building a warehouse (it was an office building). There were no political issues nor agendas nor money at stake, the news reporters just didn't make any effort to be correct. I'…

I'm increasingly convinced that looking and thinking too deeply on people matters(news, history, organizations, relationships) is like staring at the sun. There's nothing much to see by focusing your gaze on it, it blocks out stuff more nearby, and you go blind in the process. Which isn't to say that being a numb automaton is ideal, either, but there is a degree of balance and good taste required to avoid converting…

I'm not endorsing the following view of the world, but your comment reminds me of Ken Wilber's division of reality into four quadrants. It's a Cartesian product of individual vs collective times interior vs exterior.

What you are talking about as "people matters" sounds like "exterior collective": structural, social things, or "its" as Wilber refers to them.

I'm a bit worried that you might also be writing off most of the "interior collective" quadrant: the relational, cultural aspects of reality, the "we".

This is New Age fluff, but I guess we have to start somewhere. HN can be pretty hostile to humanities thinking sometimes, at least Wilber has no prerequisites.

Re: Y Combinator's Hardware Guy Leaves After 14 Months

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Post by titanomachy »

calbear81 wrote: post #64
sushid wrote: post #6

"Sam Altman, president and co-founder of Y Combinator." Uhh, they clearly didn't do their homework if they thought Altman co-founded YC.

They also said the fund was based in Palo Alto instead of Mountain View.

If you search for Y Combinator on Google Maps it gives you a giant circle centred on Mountain View that spans all the way from Palo Alto to Santa Clara. Address is definitely Mountain View, though.

Interesting, I've never seen that before.

Re: Y Combinator's Hardware Guy Leaves After 14 Months

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Post by danso »

sama wrote: post #70

I counted at least 5 factual errors in the photo caption and first 3 paragraphs. We also heard that this reporter was 'encouraged' to write this by someone from a competing accelerator with an obvious agenda. Seems like manufactured controversy otherwise. All that said, we like hardware and we like Luke, and we're excited he's in the new batch! And we're thankful for the work he did to get our hardware program set up…

Heh, impressive that a lede photo caption as short and simple as, "Sam Altman, president and co-founder of Y Combinator", has an error.

Re: Y Combinator's Hardware Guy Leaves After 14 Months

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Post by evv »

pbhjpbhj wrote: post #39
samstave wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Aside: Shoot - this wants me to make a "front fell off" joke... but HN hates jokes.

Personally I don't mind some jokes here but I can't see what the joke is you're trying to make. If it was a clearly funny comment it perhaps wouldn't fair as badly.

Its a reference to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM

Re: Y Combinator's Hardware Guy Leaves After 14 Months

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Post by sama »

danso wrote: post #74
sama wrote: post #70

I counted at least 5 factual errors in the photo caption and first 3 paragraphs. We also heard that this reporter was 'encouraged' to write this by someone from a competing accelerator with an obvious agenda. Seems like manufactured controversy otherwise. All that said, we like hardware and we like Luke, and we're excited he's in the new batch! And we're thankful for the work he did to get our hardware program set up…

Heh, impressive that a lede photo caption as short and simple as, " Sam Altman, president and co-founder of Y Combinator ", has an error.

two errors!

Re: Y Combinator's Hardware Guy Leaves After 14 Months

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Post by a13n »

sama wrote: post #70

I counted at least 5 factual errors in the photo caption and first 3 paragraphs. We also heard that this reporter was 'encouraged' to write this by someone from a competing accelerator with an obvious agenda. Seems like manufactured controversy otherwise. All that said, we like hardware and we like Luke, and we're excited he's in the new batch! And we're thankful for the work he did to get our hardware program set up…

Just this week somebody told me about how a competing accelerator made them accept or turn down their offer before doing their YC interview. Ugh.

Re: Y Combinator's Hardware Guy Leaves After 14 Months

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Post by titanomachy »

sama wrote: post #76
danso wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Heh, impressive that a lede photo caption as short and simple as, " Sam Altman, president and co-founder of Y Combinator ", has an error.

two errors!

What's the second, is that a picture of some other person?

Re: Y Combinator's Hardware Guy Leaves After 14 Months

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Post by dibstern »

a13n wrote: post #77
sama wrote: post #70

I counted at least 5 factual errors in the photo caption and first 3 paragraphs. We also heard that this reporter was 'encouraged' to write this by someone from a competing accelerator with an obvious agenda. Seems like manufactured controversy otherwise. All that said, we like hardware and we like Luke, and we're excited he's in the new batch! And we're thankful for the work he did to get our hardware program set up…

Just this week somebody told me about how a competing accelerator made them accept or turn down their offer before doing their YC interview. Ugh.

That would make me turn down their offer, I don't appreciate anti-competitive business practices. Leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

Re: Y Combinator's Hardware Guy Leaves After 14 Months

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Post by dcposch »

titanomachy wrote: post #78
sama wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

two errors!

What's the second, is that a picture of some other person?

* Not a cofounder. YC was created by PG, Jessica Livingstone, and two other ppl who aren't Sam

* Recently changed roles. Michael Siebel runs YC now, while Sam runs the parent organization YC Group

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