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Tell Sam Altman: I will take your bet

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Re: Tell Sam Altman: I will take your bet

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Post by jforman »

When I moved from SF to Boston (after co-founding Inkling six years ago), the top two things I was worried about are a) a less pro-startup culture, and b) less available early-stage money.

This really doesn't help either point. We need more early-stage money here and more optimism, not less.

Re: Tell Sam Altman: I will take your bet

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Post by untog »

ilyanep wrote: post #15
kmeves wrote: post #12

I think it's pompous for both you and Sam Altman to be wasting our threads with these bets.

Are they more pompous or less pompous than the articles that show up every so often claiming that Tech is a bubble that's about to pop any moment now?

er, yes? How is an article like that pompous?

Re: Tell Sam Altman: I will take your bet

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Post by jumby »

ltnately wrote: post #11
hydrazine wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

http://blog.samaltman.com/bubble-talk https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9258798

Directly from link To win, I have to be right on all three propositions. 1) The top 6 US companies at http://fortune.com/2015/01/22/the-age-of-unicorns/ (Uber, Palantir, Airbnb, Dropbox, Pinterest, and SpaceX) are currently worth just over $100B. I am leaving out Snapchat because I couldn’t get verification of its valuation. Proposition 1: On January 1st, 2020, these companies will be worth at least $200B in aggregat…

(3) will be the clincher for this guy.

Re: Tell Sam Altman: I will take your bet

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Post by ilyanep »

untog wrote: post #23
ilyanep wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are they more pompous or less pompous than the articles that show up every so often claiming that Tech is a bubble that's about to pop any moment now?

er, yes? How is an article like that pompous?

If the implication here is that Sam Altman and OP are pompous enough to think we care what they think about the state of the Tech economy, then wouldn't the same logic apply to the authors who write "the Tech bubble is bursting! The world is ending!" articles?

Re: Tell Sam Altman: I will take your bet

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Post by sama »

I sort of love that the person willing to take the other side of this is a Boston-area VC :)

I accept subject to verification that you really qualify as a VC, and I can't find a website for Immaculate Conception Ventures. What investments have you made and how large is your fund?

If terms from the blog post are acceptable I will enter into longbets.

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