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Welcome Home, Garry Tan

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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.

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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! Going to apply for the winter batch, hope to meet you there ;)

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Post by astrange »

Uhhrrr wrote: post #197
NelsonMinar wrote: post #188

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I'm in the blocked club and have no idea why. Here's the one tweet I ever sent @garrytan, responding to his reply to me: https://twitter.com/nelson/status/1185919273065041925 . (I'm happy to report that business reopened with new owners and the rumor was the old owners just went broke.) I agree blocking people is fine and should be stigma free. But Mr. Tan's framing of his reasons for blocking seems at odds with the…

I'm in the blocked club and have never interacted with him!

I am not blocked by him, which means I haven’t spent enough time making fun of him for putting “.eth” in his name then silently removing it.

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Post by wahnfrieden »

Kiro wrote: post #273
wahnfrieden wrote: post #272

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I won’t platform him directly, no

Is this him? https://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/

>When I wrote those earlier essays in the first half of the 2010s, I believed in neoliberal technological capitalism. I’ll spare the reader my own career history, but it failed me. It has failed society, too. Now that I’m older and smarter, I would say that in broad strokes I am a communist.

Wow, he's turned himself around in a way, and for the better

Re: Welcome Home, Garry Tan

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Post by redmen »

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…

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