Exec Crunchie Nomination Rap and PG Making it Rain
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Exec Crunchie Nomination Rap and PG Making it Rain
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Re: Exec Crunchie Nomination Rap and PG Making it Rain
#2PG made it rain? I just checked https://www.richkidsoftwtr.com/ and clearly he hasn't yet. Noone has.
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#3PG made it rain? I just checked https://www.richkidsoftwtr.com/ and clearly he hasn't yet. Noone has.
He made it rain at the end of the video.
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#4PG made it rain? I just checked https://www.richkidsoftwtr.com/ and clearly he hasn't yet. Noone has.
We're a startup too and you can see the story behind this service here https://www.richkidsoftwtr.com/about
Having said that, congrats to exec. Definitely not our intention to take away any spotlight from them by posting that here. We just found it fitting. We'll gladly take down this link if the OP asks.
Re: Exec Crunchie Nomination Rap and PG Making it Rain
#5I take issue with the quick denial of having a Grindr account and it is this very type of discrimination that is ruining the valley.
Nah, kidding. Best part was PG, though, clearly unaware of the appropriate way to make it rain. In fact, I suggest someone make a gif of just that part and it be made the background of HN every time a YC company is acquired.
Re: Exec Crunchie Nomination Rap and PG Making it Rain
#6Rain making happens at 3:49.
Re: Exec Crunchie Nomination Rap and PG Making it Rain
#7I take issue with the quick denial of having a Grindr account and it is this very type of discrimination that is ruining the valley. Nah, kidding. Best part was PG, though, clearly unaware of the appropriate way to make it rain. In fact, I suggest someone make a gif of just that part and it be made the background of HN every time a YC company is acquired.
I'm always surprised that the LGBT community doesn't intersect more with the engineering community, given that both San Francisco and New York are major hubs for both.
I know several gay men (and a few lesbian women or transgendered people) who work in the startup world, but even then they tend to be non-engineering positions. A former co-worker of mine and I started an NYC meetup for this exact purpose - we're actually having a game night tonight if any engineers are interested: http://www.meetup.com/Identity-Hackers/ [0]
Speaking only for myself, I've never felt any kind of discrimination, though I imagine if I were female or transgender, that experience may be different. I was also pretty lucky, though - my first experience working as a startup was at an incredibly gay-friendly dating website, so when your job is to work on posts like these[1], it's pretty easy to feel comfortable.
That doesn't really solve the problem of getting people in the door, though, and I've often wondered why more LGBT people go into engineering in the first place. I went to a very gay-friendly school, and even there the LGBT crowd seemed underrepresented in the engineering classes. I imagine this is related to the question of why we don't have more female engineers (whether straight/cis or not), but that's a much larger discussion.
[0] I hope the timeliness and relevance is enough to forgive this shameless plug! [1] http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/gay-sex-vs-straight-sex/
Re: Exec Crunchie Nomination Rap and PG Making it Rain
#8PG made it rain? I just checked https://www.richkidsoftwtr.com/ and clearly he hasn't yet. Noone has.
I have no choice but to respond to the down-votes. I promised myself I wouldn't at -1 but at -3 I have no choice. This is not a complaint of any sort but I would like to say the following:
We have been active HN readers/contributors for over 3 years. The "richkidsoftwtr" HN handle is one we created simply for this service and not for our personal use.
Having said that, one thing this community appreciates is a good story about a hard working group of guys using innovative ways to solve not only the problems that their customers face but also their internal problems (i.e. how are we going to survive until the next payment is received, etc...).
If you were to honestly take time to read the "about" link (https://www.richkidsoftwtr.com/about) you would see that we're an honest group of guys trying to do something unique to solve our own cash shortage. We're not just being opportunistic douches but rather capitalizing on this opportunity given the Exec team referred to "Making It Rain" in their post.
After all, having been in this rat-race for a few years, we appreciate just as much as the next person the amount of daily grunt work required to make it. This is just part of our effort. Kudos to all the other rats who appreciate our effort.
Re: Exec Crunchie Nomination Rap and PG Making it Rain
#9Rain making happens at 3:49.
Re: Exec Crunchie Nomination Rap and PG Making it Rain
#10I take issue with the quick denial of having a Grindr account and it is this very type of discrimination that is ruining the valley. Nah, kidding. Best part was PG, though, clearly unaware of the appropriate way to make it rain. In fact, I suggest someone make a gif of just that part and it be made the background of HN every time a YC company is acquired.
I'm always surprised that the LGBT community doesn't intersect more with the engineering community, given that both San Francisco and New York are major hubs for both. I know several gay men (and a few lesbian women or transgendered people) who work in the startup world, but even then they tend to be non-engineering positions. A former co-worker of mine and I started an NYC meetup for this exact purpose - we're actua…
This hasn't been my experience so far working as a software engineer in the valley. I've worked with/know several gay engineers and startup folks. To be fair, I don't know whether the proportion is representative of the wider population or not.