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An update on YC China

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Re: An update on YC China

#11
Strange optics not to mention the elephant in the room.

I could see them hitting some roadblocks and wanting to try again to get into China, but that would be a reasonable thing to come out and say.

It also would be reasonable to come out and say they've changed their minds due to political climate or some other risks.

Instead its... the new guy is busy?

Re: An update on YC China

#14
post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's dishonest/opaque about this? YC is generally Bay Area-only, and after consideration they decided to stick with that.

There's no real reason why given. It seems that HN's "No politics" policy flows over to their blog updates as well.

HN doesn't have a no politics policy.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17014869

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

Edit: maybe I should add that we do moderate posts that are just political, i.e. don't have an intellectually curious angle, as well as threads that depart from the path of curious discussion and sink into flames.

Re: An update on YC China

#15
post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's dishonest/opaque about this? YC is generally Bay Area-only, and after consideration they decided to stick with that.

There's no real reason why given. It seems that HN's "No politics" policy flows over to their blog updates as well.

You do understand that YC China would have been an enormous change, right? They barely started doing NYC this year.

The default answer is simply "no"/"not right now"; not a ton of explanation required.

Re: An update on YC China

#18

Very disappointing and probably the least honest and transparant update from YC.

Even YC is cowed into silence by the might of China. Understandably so, even if somewhat cowardly. Does YC want China to boycott or otherwise disable YC companies? Does YC want to threaten any future relationship with China? No. So they keep mum as to their real reasons.

Re: An update on YC China

#20

Very disappointing and probably the least honest and transparant update from YC.

Even YC is cowed into silence by the might of China. Understandably so, even if somewhat cowardly. Does YC want China to boycott or otherwise disable YC companies? Does YC want to threaten any future relationship with China? No. So they keep mum as to their real reasons.

Don't be silly, Sam Altman said that he was much more comfortable discussing controversial ideas in Beijing than in San Francisco; YC couldn't possibly be self-censoring because of fear of Chinese reprisal.

/s

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