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Welcome Home, Garry Tan

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Re: Welcome Home, Garry Tan

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Post by stakkur »

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

Based only on your comment, I'm guessing you're unaware of Palantir's work with intelligence agencies even when Tan was there. Also, Thiel's mission from the start was this kind of work.

I served in the Marine Corps. I've had some exposure to Palantir's 'offerings'. It's a fucking nightmare of a company, morally and ethically, and it always has been.

Re: Welcome Home, Garry Tan

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Post by Aeolun »

sneak wrote: post #63

> 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.

I don’t think it’s necessarily his, or Palantirs’ fault that the US government is evil.

Re: Welcome Home, Garry Tan

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Post by gitfan86 »

EddySchauHai wrote: post #65
gitfan86 wrote: post #12

Congrats! What is going to happen of the next few years with AI is going to be mind blowing. The more people you can stear away from crypto and towards democratizing AI, the better, IMO.

You say to the guy who wrote the first seed check of Coinbase

Crypto has run it's course, I don't think Gary did anything wrong by helping the crypto experiment happen. But YC is about the future, not the past.

Re: Welcome Home, Garry Tan

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Post by bradgessler »

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! Who knew in ‘08 that you’d be running the joint one day?

Re: Welcome Home, Garry Tan

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Post by hackernewds »

preommr wrote: post #69
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.

? where do you get this?

Re: Welcome Home, Garry Tan

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Post by hackernewds »

Aeolun wrote: post #68
LewisVerstappen wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Not really
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