Earlier quoted context omitted.
I assume it's "my whole life! /smilewink".
.. or "I'm still not sure I do"?
Or "I have a split personality so really you are getting two people for the price of one"
Dropbox's Summer 07 YC Application
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Re: Dropbox's Summer 07 YC Application
#62What happens when I read this: File syncing. Superset of backups, which people will pay for. Good. Single founder. Bad. But at least he's looking for more people. Went to MIT, 1600 SAT. Probably fairly smart. Wrote a poker bot. Now I'm starting to get interested; has the right attitude. Description of the software sounds plausible but generic. Maybe it's good, but who can tell. But little sister uses it; that's impre…
"Did not make the usual joke single founders make when asked how long the founders have known one another." What's the usual joke?...
I assumed "usual" implied not a certain specific joke, but the presence of a joke.
Re: Dropbox's Summer 07 YC Application
#63What happens when I read this: File syncing. Superset of backups, which people will pay for. Good. Single founder. Bad. But at least he's looking for more people. Went to MIT, 1600 SAT. Probably fairly smart. Wrote a poker bot. Now I'm starting to get interested; has the right attitude. Description of the software sounds plausible but generic. Maybe it's good, but who can tell. But little sister uses it; that's impre…
I went back and looked at this application in our system, and I did in fact give it an A-. An A- means "I want to interview." An A means "I want to interview, even if Rtm and Trevor don't." I only gave 2 As in s2007. (We funded both those companies, and both did badly.)
How did the A's and A-'s from other years do?
Re: Dropbox's Summer 07 YC Application
#64I really think pg should create a very successful business just on reading startups proposals and giving them ratings and charging them for his analysis. Please let me build it for you. Anyways.. more please.