> In school, the experts — teachers — always knew the right answer
Now I'm wondering what school they went to where they went to, since all the ones I have attended this hasn't been even close to being true…
What I Learned Going Through YC as a 17 Year Old
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#72What I learned from this article: 1. Privilege opens doors not available to others. 2. Those with privilege are often oblivious to the advantages they have.
Agreed. Pretty much every point needs to be followed up by "... if you're a white man." - No one cares about your background ... if you're a white man. - You don't need a lot of experience ... if you're a white man.
I mean, technically it looks like this guy (Tieshun Roquerre) is an asian man. (or possibly half-asian?)
Re: What I Learned Going Through YC as a 17 Year Old
#73What I learned from this article: 1. Privilege opens doors not available to others. 2. Those with privilege are often oblivious to the advantages they have.
Agreed. Pretty much every point needs to be followed up by "... if you're a white man." - No one cares about your background ... if you're a white man. - You don't need a lot of experience ... if you're a white man.
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#74Would like to know how he at 16/15 years of age got a fulltime job at teespring.
2014 - Moved from Boston to San Francisco to work as a
fulltime engineer at Teespring instead of doing my
junior year of high school.Re: What I Learned Going Through YC as a 17 Year Old
#75I wish we could take comments from threads like these and turn them into a kind of compendium of HN, so that outsiders can know what to expect of this site.
Need to determine if it fits under the "Race Baiting" or the "Educating Adolescents on Privilege" category.
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#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Coming from a Boston suburb" was enough for you to dismiss his talent and effort as irrelevant? Geez.
On another part of his homepage it says he went to MIT around the same time he did YC. As someone who interviewed for YC myself while attending MIT, I am not even going to pretend I got the interview entirely independent of my background and the opportunities it gave me - and indirectly, my ability and decision to finance a very expensive education, even after financial aid. Now, he obviously had talent to even get i…
How many people are not going to MIT because they are financially unable? I’m curious.
Re: What I Learned Going Through YC as a 17 Year Old
#77What I learned from this article: 1. Privilege opens doors not available to others. 2. Those with privilege are often oblivious to the advantages they have.
There's nothing stopping any American household from raising their child in a good environment today, except parents' own mediocrity.
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#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
On another part of his homepage it says he went to MIT around the same time he did YC. As someone who interviewed for YC myself while attending MIT, I am not even going to pretend I got the interview entirely independent of my background and the opportunities it gave me - and indirectly, my ability and decision to finance a very expensive education, even after financial aid. Now, he obviously had talent to even get i…
How many people are not going to MIT because they are financially unable? I’m curious.
I know several people who chose Harvard over MIT because Harvard had better financial aid.
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#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Coming from a Boston suburb" was enough for you to dismiss his talent and effort as irrelevant? Geez.
On another part of his homepage it says he went to MIT around the same time he did YC. As someone who interviewed for YC myself while attending MIT, I am not even going to pretend I got the interview entirely independent of my background and the opportunities it gave me - and indirectly, my ability and decision to finance a very expensive education, even after financial aid. Now, he obviously had talent to even get i…
Jesus Christ. Before he got into to MIT, he dropped out of high school and landed a job at a company in San Francisco. You people act like this stuff just happens magically.
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#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
I should’ve only quoted the first part of the sentence as relevant to me, but: Better for whom? I agree it could result in better average returns for the firm, but it likely isn’t better for moving society forward as a whole.
moving society foward is a strong statement which startups in your opinion did that? you know, an actual innovation not another competitive service as a service
Intel? Apple? Google? Nvidia? Tesla? SpaceX?