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Welcome Home, Garry Tan

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Re: Welcome Home, Garry Tan

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Post by LewisVerstappen »

stakkur wrote: post #60
maram wrote: post #47

“Garry Tan is a moral canary in a coal mine. When people hate on Garry Tan, they out themselves as either evil or stupid, because in fact Garry is as close to a 100% good guy as you get”. —Paul Graham https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1460931338131890180 ———— Congratulations Garry! Your blogs were my inspirations when I was running my startup. I always remember this line: “The ideal startup team involves really two ma…

I have no strong opinion of Tan, but calling a person who happily worked for (and profited from) Palantir a 'moral canary in a coal mine' seems a bit of a stretch.

Tan worked at Palantir prior to 2007, so if you’re blaming him for Palantir’s work with ICE then…

> they out themselves as either evil or stupid

Re: Welcome Home, Garry Tan

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Post by [deleted] »

LewisVerstappen wrote: post #61
stakkur wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have no strong opinion of Tan, but calling a person who happily worked for (and profited from) Palantir a 'moral canary in a coal mine' seems a bit of a stretch.

Tan worked at Palantir prior to 2007, so if you’re blaming him for Palantir’s work with ICE then… > they out themselves as either evil or stupid

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Re: Welcome Home, Garry Tan

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Post by sneak »

> After earning a degree in computer engineering from Stanford, Garry was an engineer at Palantir and then created one of the earliest and best-designed blogging platforms, Posterous.

This is a reminder that Palantir is the firm that sells data mining software to US police and military organizations that then use it to violate human rights.

It should be a black mark on anyone’s record.

Re: Welcome Home, Garry Tan

#64

Post by billclerico »

garry wrote: post #3

Believe it or not, my journey to Y Combinator started similar to how you may experience YC — through being a regular lurker and reader on Hacker News. I went to Startup School, me and my cofounders applied, we got an interview, and we got in. I was an engineer, designer and PM. I'd built teams and products, but I'd never built a company. YC gave me a shot, a community, knowhow, and the ability to access capital, tale…

congrats Garry!! you are a founder's founder and will do great things at YC.

Re: Welcome Home, Garry Tan

#67

Post by mattmaroon »

garry wrote: post #3

Believe it or not, my journey to Y Combinator started similar to how you may experience YC — through being a regular lurker and reader on Hacker News. I went to Startup School, me and my cofounders applied, we got an interview, and we got in. I was an engineer, designer and PM. I'd built teams and products, but I'd never built a company. YC gave me a shot, a community, knowhow, and the ability to access capital, tale…

Congrats Garry! You're going to do a great job I am sure.

Re: Welcome Home, Garry Tan

#68

Post by Aeolun »

LewisVerstappen wrote: post #61
stakkur wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have no strong opinion of Tan, but calling a person who happily worked for (and profited from) Palantir a 'moral canary in a coal mine' seems a bit of a stretch.

Tan worked at Palantir prior to 2007, so if you’re blaming him for Palantir’s work with ICE then… > they out themselves as either evil or stupid

I dunno, but Palantir has always been a little bit…

I mean, it’s kinda in the name.

Re: Welcome Home, Garry Tan

#69

Post by preommr »

maram wrote: post #47

“Garry Tan is a moral canary in a coal mine. When people hate on Garry Tan, they out themselves as either evil or stupid, because in fact Garry is as close to a 100% good guy as you get”. —Paul Graham https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1460931338131890180 ———— Congratulations Garry! Your blogs were my inspirations when I was running my startup. I always remember this line: “The ideal startup team involves really two ma…

> The extreme left in SF politics (which in SF = the Establishment).

???

kind off topic, but I am curious what other people in SF think about this statement. I don't live there, but I find it surprising and dubious that the extreme anything is also "the establishment", not saying it's not possible but seems unlikely to me.

Re: Welcome Home, Garry Tan

#70

Post by jeremymims »

garry wrote: post #3

Believe it or not, my journey to Y Combinator started similar to how you may experience YC — through being a regular lurker and reader on Hacker News. I went to Startup School, me and my cofounders applied, we got an interview, and we got in. I was an engineer, designer and PM. I'd built teams and products, but I'd never built a company. YC gave me a shot, a community, knowhow, and the ability to access capital, tale…

Congratulations, Garry! YC couldn't have picked a better leader.
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