"I loved that I couldn't take the Auctomatics to a bar for a company meeting."
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Re: "I loved that I couldn't take the Auctomatics to a bar for a company meeting."
#2Nice post. Gives some extra glimpses of just a few of the many things that have to be made to happen. Congrats to all.
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#3So if the Auctomatic guys couldn't hack, did they learn how to in SF and did they then find Patrick and John when they were in SF?
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#4So was it their great idea that Paul was sold on, or was there something else that made them stand out?
Re: "I loved that I couldn't take the Auctomatics to a bar for a company meeting."
#5So if the Auctomatic guys couldn't hack, did they learn how to in SF and did they then find Patrick and John when they were in SF?
Yes and yes
"Within a few weeks of being out in SV we were introduced to the guys behind, YouOS. As fate would have it, one of the founders (Srini) was actually living in the building next to us and we started having informal hacking lessons where he’d teach us how to hack. We got on really well and we agreed to work together more formally for the three months of YC - he’d help us build our product and teach us how to become hackers."
"Shortly afterwards, again through YC, we met Patrick Collison - a young whizzkid hacker (he wrote his own programming language when he was 16) who’d applied to YC with an idea relating to the online auction space."
Re: "I loved that I couldn't take the Auctomatics to a bar for a company meeting."
#6So if the Auctomatic guys couldn't hack, did they learn how to in SF and did they then find Patrick and John when they were in SF?
Yes and yes "Within a few weeks of being out in SV we were introduced to the guys behind, YouOS. As fate would have it, one of the founders (Srini) was actually living in the building next to us and we started having informal hacking lessons where he’d teach us how to hack. We got on really well and we agreed to work together more formally for the three months of YC - he’d help us build our product and teach us how t…
>wrote his own programming language when he was 16...
Do you mean he executed "man yacc"? ;)
Thats quite a stream of serendipitous events (referring the the above blog). How does one just have "intense sessions" with people like Max Levchin, Evan Williams and Naval Ravikant??
Re: "I loved that I couldn't take the Auctomatics to a bar for a company meeting."
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes and yes "Within a few weeks of being out in SV we were introduced to the guys behind, YouOS. As fate would have it, one of the founders (Srini) was actually living in the building next to us and we started having informal hacking lessons where he’d teach us how to hack. We got on really well and we agreed to work together more formally for the three months of YC - he’d help us build our product and teach us how t…
>wrote his own programming language when he was 16... Do you mean he executed "man yacc"? ;) Thats quite a stream of serendipitous events (referring the the above blog). How does one just have "intense sessions" with people like Max Levchin, Evan Williams and Naval Ravikant??
No, he wrote a fairly decent language called Croma while he was in HS and it is what is still powering auctomatic today.
Re: "I loved that I couldn't take the Auctomatics to a bar for a company meeting."
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes and yes "Within a few weeks of being out in SV we were introduced to the guys behind, YouOS. As fate would have it, one of the founders (Srini) was actually living in the building next to us and we started having informal hacking lessons where he’d teach us how to hack. We got on really well and we agreed to work together more formally for the three months of YC - he’d help us build our product and teach us how t…
>wrote his own programming language when he was 16... Do you mean he executed "man yacc"? ;) Thats quite a stream of serendipitous events (referring the the above blog). How does one just have "intense sessions" with people like Max Levchin, Evan Williams and Naval Ravikant??
> Thats quite a stream of serendipitous events (referring the the above blog). How does one just have "intense sessions" with people like Max Levchin, Evan Williams and Naval Ravikant??
I think I read in that blog that they first met at some Oxford business event. I'm thinking that YC brought in some remarkable people from across the 'pond (going global)
Re: "I loved that I couldn't take the Auctomatics to a bar for a company meeting."
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
>wrote his own programming language when he was 16... Do you mean he executed "man yacc"? ;) Thats quite a stream of serendipitous events (referring the the above blog). How does one just have "intense sessions" with people like Max Levchin, Evan Williams and Naval Ravikant??
No, he wrote a fairly decent language called Croma while he was in HS and it is what is still powering auctomatic today.
I think Auctomatic uses Seaside (http://www.seaside.st).
Re: "I loved that I couldn't take the Auctomatics to a bar for a company meeting."
#10So if the Auctomatic guys couldn't hack, did they learn how to in SF and did they then find Patrick and John when they were in SF?
Yes and yes "Within a few weeks of being out in SV we were introduced to the guys behind, YouOS. As fate would have it, one of the founders (Srini) was actually living in the building next to us and we started having informal hacking lessons where he’d teach us how to hack. We got on really well and we agreed to work together more formally for the three months of YC - he’d help us build our product and teach us how t…
Thanks for the link. I can totally empathise with the difficulty of finding hackers - even 9 to 5 ones. And it doesn't instill hope of finding hackers out side of London when they couldn't find any in London.