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Aaron Swartz: Perfectionism (and his new startup, Jottit)

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Re: Aaron Swartz: Perfectionism (and his new startup, Jottit)

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I expect Matt will have more personal bad experiences, but the most well-publicized one goes approximately as follows: - Aaron applies to YC, starts Infogami with a co-founder who drops out (presumably because of Aaron's special interpersonal sparkles). - Aaron launches Infogami, with a promise of a new feature every day. - Aaron complains for a long time about how he doesn't have a co-founder, and then merges with R…

Mine wasn't that bad, but it did involve me being told I had an apartment in Cambridge locked up, only to find less than two weeks before Y C began that I didn't.

Sorry, but how does that involve me?

Re: Aaron Swartz: Perfectionism (and his new startup, Jottit)

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post #51

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Such as?

I expect Matt will have more personal bad experiences, but the most well-publicized one goes approximately as follows: - Aaron applies to YC, starts Infogami with a co-founder who drops out (presumably because of Aaron's special interpersonal sparkles). - Aaron launches Infogami, with a promise of a new feature every day. - Aaron complains for a long time about how he doesn't have a co-founder, and then merges with R…

You know, if that were true, I'd hate myself even more than I do already!

Re: Aaron Swartz: Perfectionism (and his new startup, Jottit)

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post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I expect Matt will have more personal bad experiences, but the most well-publicized one goes approximately as follows: - Aaron applies to YC, starts Infogami with a co-founder who drops out (presumably because of Aaron's special interpersonal sparkles). - Aaron launches Infogami, with a promise of a new feature every day. - Aaron complains for a long time about how he doesn't have a co-founder, and then merges with R…

startup/nerd drama! more, more, more! this is better than Perez Hilton!

Wait until you hear who the Reddit mascot has been sleeping with!

Re: Aaron Swartz: Perfectionism (and his new startup, Jottit)

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post #28

http://beta.jottit.com/

FWIW, this wasn't an actual beta. I'd mapped *.jottit.com to the test server so we could test picking particular domains and forgot to password-protect it.

thanks Aaron, don't let the naysayers get you down, news.yc really loves you.

Re: Aaron Swartz: Perfectionism (and his new startup, Jottit)

#108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I expect Matt will have more personal bad experiences, but the most well-publicized one goes approximately as follows: - Aaron applies to YC, starts Infogami with a co-founder who drops out (presumably because of Aaron's special interpersonal sparkles). - Aaron launches Infogami, with a promise of a new feature every day. - Aaron complains for a long time about how he doesn't have a co-founder, and then merges with R…

You know, if that were true, I'd hate myself even more than I do already!

Most of what I said was inferred from the Reddit discussion resulting from the aforementioned interview, and most of the content in that discussion came from people who were actually involved. So, maybe I inferred wrongly; which things weren't true?
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