Y Combinator's Original Home For Sale
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Y Combinator's Original Home For Sale
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Re: Y Combinator's Original Home For Sale
#2I never got in to YC, but the pictures made me feel nostalgic. (I'd visited in the fall of 2008 and seen Bill Warner speak.)
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#3There is something wrong with the slideshow widget on the property listing page:
http://eplacehomes.com/company/featured-listings/135-garden/
Whenever I click one of the arrows to move through the pictures of the property, it reloads the page.
Edit: The code shows that the embedded slideshow object is placed within an link. You should probably fix that so that the widget is useable.
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#4Garden Street has a fair amount of traffic, but we solved the noise problem pretty thoroughly: there are 1600 pounds of glass in the windows, and the doors drop down into slots as they swing closed.
We also had larger skylights installed. Plus there was already a greenhouse set into the roof. The result is a place that surprises everyone who walks into it. In the middle of Cambridge you walk into what seems a fairly nondescript building, and inside is a huge, quiet, light space.
Liquidity is such a beautiful thing.
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#5Looks like an amazing place. Since PG said he was open to suggestions. Why not rent it to y-combinator startups? I don't know much about SF, so I am assuming it doesn't make sense from a cost perspective.
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#6Why not rent it out as a coworking space to startups in Cambridge?
You could even extend the YC model a bit and rent it out cheap in exchange for some equity
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#7Looks like an amazing place. Since PG said he was open to suggestions. Why not rent it to y-combinator startups? I don't know much about SF, so I am assuming it doesn't make sense from a cost perspective.
The office is in Cambridge, MA. There are few (no?) YC startups left in the Boston area at this point. I'm sure the idea crossed their mind.
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#8Looks like an amazing place. Since PG said he was open to suggestions. Why not rent it to y-combinator startups? I don't know much about SF, so I am assuming it doesn't make sense from a cost perspective.
The office is in Cambridge, MA. There are few (no?) YC startups left in the Boston area at this point. I'm sure the idea crossed their mind.
There's some. Embedly, for example, moved back east after YC.
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#9Sigh, it wasn't that long ago that a 17-year-old with no income could have gotten a mortgage to buy a $1M loft.
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#10This is one of the cheeriest buildings I've ever been in. I remember an automatic mood uptake walking in the door for each weekly dinner.