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Re: Welcome Home, Garry Tan

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Post by senttoschool »

extent-connifer wrote: post #59

(Throwaway because it’s a small world) This is disappointing. YC needs a fresh perspective. Recycling older members is not a positive sign for continued innovation. I wouldn’t point to “HODL diamond hands” crypto hype (suddenly disappeared..) and personal brand-building content creation as the type of leadership YC needs at this stage. Specifically in this, someone who has been running a large VC fund for the past ha…

>I wouldn’t point to “HODL diamond hands” crypto hype (suddenly disappeared..)

This is my biggest worry. I'd have preferred a non-crypto-junkie.

This is Gary saying that ETH will go up to $10k soon: https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1402648829732614146

It went to $1k instead.

At times, following Gary on Twitter felt like following a dumb crypto bro.

Everyone looks like a genius during a bull market and 0% interest rate environment.

Re: Welcome Home, Garry Tan

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Post by wahnfrieden »

Vaslo wrote: post #125
12_throw_away wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So, why the downvotes? We're not allowed to talk about this?

You can talk about it but when most folks in tech are fairly to extremely liberal, why is it bad to have representation from all sides? The left (which I’m guessing you are a part of) preaches diversity. Shouldn’t diversity also include political views as well as race, class, and gender affiliation?

this is their first and only openly politically-active hire at this level, with the politics explicitly relevant to their hiring, I don't know why you're calling that balanced representation unless you mean that it's balanced to have right wing leader-owners dominate liberals and leftist workers (lol)

Re: Welcome Home, Garry Tan

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Post by podviaznikov »

Garry is incredible. I've met him 10 years ago during YC. He helped company I worked for a lot. Probably one of the most available people from the whole YC - at least it seemed that way to me.

Also, I did attend Garry's 30th birthday party. Great memory how casual and down to Earth everything was.

Good luck with new/old adventure.

Re: Welcome Home, Garry Tan

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Post by felixchan »

Garry Tan has been the most influential figure that I have ever had a chance to come across. He appeared right at my critical moments of life and death, at the turning points of the tide. I am certain to say that without Garry and his helping hand, my life would not be what it is today. I consider myself very lucky to have met him.

Congratulations, Garry!

Re: Welcome Home, Garry Tan

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Post by wahnfrieden »

shuckles wrote: post #122
smcl wrote: post #114

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Kinda wondering what his beef with Hamasaki was that prompted "Resign you piece of shit". Seems like this was a Board of Education person, was he that bad, like poisoning the kids school lunches? edit: sorry I realise that I may asking some stupid questions that everyone knows already. But to me Garry Tan was just the Posterous guy. I'm just a bit floored to hear that there's more to this and I'm trying to find my be…

John Hamasaki is a criminal defense attorney in San Francisco who was a former member of the police commission. He seems to advertise himself by being intentionally incendiary, making up lies like the police get paid overtime to participate (i.e. walk) in the pride parade. There is also a group of people around him who amplify his lies. I can imagine people being fed up with being the target of his harassment, which…

Garry pushed a political agenda specifically for a tough on crime via punishment approach (in terms of policing streets, not so much tough on wage theft or other more leading crimes). You make it sound like it was some specific tactics that were the issue, rather than that the issue he's taking is with an ideologically diametrically opposed approach to addressing crime

Re: Welcome Home, Garry Tan

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Post by sandofsky »

garry wrote: post #90
hellomyguys wrote: post #50

I guess everyone Garry has blocked on Twitter will not be applying to YC any time soon :)

Twitter has been a tough one - I got involved in local politics which has been a challenge. Large accounts typically do have to block a lot to make it usable, and in particular I've had problems with folks doxxing my former home address (I had to sell that house and move), and making threats of violence against me. I'm sorry if I got it wrong, and I am happy to unblock if I did get it wrong.

I'm seeing many people say you've blocked them without ever having interacted with you. Many have jumped to the conclusion that you simply block people who disagree with your politics. I don't tweet about SF politics, but after I tweeted this, you replied tell me it's funny but wrong, and then blocked me: https://twitter.com/sandofsky/status/1491167231467999236

Which is fine. I block plenty of people. I also mute people, because a block carries a message. And if I found myself in role that gets considerable scrutiny, I'd probably reevaluate my entire approach to social media.

Re: Welcome Home, Garry Tan

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Post by systemvoltage »

sterlind wrote: post #116
systemvoltage wrote: post #84

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I've studied Thiel, he's just not mainstream left. If you want to listen to him with good faith, I enjoyed this interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM9f0W2KD5s Doesn't come across evil to me unless by evil you mean just not mainstream left, which might be the correct in the valley.

I tried to watch that interview. It's just dry, boring, slow and abstract (to me) but I'll grant you it wasn't what I was expecting. My issue with Thiel is his hypocrisy: he warns about surveillance AI and how it's evil, which is just rich, since he founded Palantir and holds shares of Clearview.

Someone asked him directly this question and he addressed it in quite a lot of detail, something along the lines of two morally good ideas of extreme transparency and extreme privacy. I don't agree with him though, I personally stand strictly on the conservative/classical-liberal side that there is no compromise that's acceptable with regards to 4th amendment.

Re: Welcome Home, Garry Tan

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Post by wahnfrieden »

systemvoltage wrote: post #128
_ugfj wrote: post #109

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Not "mainstream left"? I guess the right, what was once the far right but today is just the right is indeed not "mainstream left". Make no mistake where he stands: he was one of the largest donors of Trump, served on his transitional team and has once written "I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible". https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/educatio...

There were hundreds of doners to Donald Trump's 2020 campaign, let alone 2016 campaign. If not directly, then through other superPACS including FAANG companies [1]. https://www.opensecrets.org/2020-presidential-race/donald-tr... If your viewpoint is so myopically constrained by a single data point, I don't know what to say. I find intellectuals from all corners of political spectrum to be interesting. Usually, when p…

you talk about donating to "both sides" however dems are also a conservative party and hardly a "leftist" organization, your point is not as strong as you make it seem

Re: Welcome Home, Garry Tan

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Post by systemvoltage »

wahnfrieden wrote: post #138
systemvoltage wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There were hundreds of doners to Donald Trump's 2020 campaign, let alone 2016 campaign. If not directly, then through other superPACS including FAANG companies [1]. https://www.opensecrets.org/2020-presidential-race/donald-tr... If your viewpoint is so myopically constrained by a single data point, I don't know what to say. I find intellectuals from all corners of political spectrum to be interesting. Usually, when p…

you talk about donating to "both sides" however dems are also a conservative party and hardly a "leftist" organization, your point is not as strong as you make it seem

I am addressing "mainstream left" and honestly, the main point of contention is that we should debate about Peter Thiel, but calling him evil is wrong and extremely misinformed.
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