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Re: YC Changes

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Post by DigitalJack »

erikpukinskis wrote: post #37

I realize it's a joke, but it also seems quite unlikely to be true. To me, this is the biggest weakness of YC as an organization: a pernicious belief that what applies within their community applies to all communities. I have to wonder what kind of world Graham sees, if it's one in which all communities would welcome a person like Sam as leader. No disrespect to Sam and his substantial leadership qualities. Edit: It'…

Assuming that cannibals means "people of color" is the very definition of racism.

Re: YC Changes

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Post by reflexive »

gmarx wrote: post #100
reflexive wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, Pitcairn and Roanoke come immediately to mind. Notice also that Paul writes "an island full of cannibals", not "an island of cannibals", so you may want to avoid making subtle and potentially misleading distortions to the original text. Edit: When you say "island of cannibals" it implies an indigenous, or at least long-established, population, but "island full of cannibals" could easily mean a group of recent se…

You are the one distorting the meaning. The joke clearly implies an existing culture of cannibals, a society entirely hostile and dangerous to outsiders and yet somehow brought to heel by Sam's super amazing charisma or work ethic or whatever else is the criteria by which cannibals choose their leaders. If a shipwreck situation were intended he would have stated it that way.

> an existing culture of cannibals, a society entirely hostile and dangerous to outsiders and yet somehow brought to heel by Sam's super amazing charisma or work ethic or whatever else is the criteria by which cannibals choose their leaders

All that may be true, but it took a racist to add the dimension of skin color.

Re: YC Changes

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Post by mwseibel »

brianliou91 wrote: post #94

I would personally seek Michael's advice when I was in the S15 batch because of how earnest his advice was. Even for companies outside his group you could really tell the effort he would give to provide quality guidance. One example of how much Michael cares was in the days before our demo day, I was the first to come in at 8AM and Michael literally had slept on the couch having stayed up all night providing feedback…

Thanks Brian - when you go all in on demo day prep so do we :)

Re: YC Changes

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Post by tedmiston »

dhawalhs wrote: post #26

Obligatory link to How to Start a Startup Stanford class by Sam Altman: http://startupclass.samaltman.com/ As the founder of a MOOC search engine, I am excited. Its good for my business :) P.S. You can follow the class on Class Central [1] and we will send you an update whenever the course dates are actually announced [1] https://www.class-central.com/mooc/7130/startup-school?follo...

Startup Playbook is good too (it's roughly the course condensed into a half dozen essays).

http://playbook.samaltman.com

Re: YC Changes

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Post by Angostura »

> *I’m going to be the President of YC Group, which includes Y Combinator, YC Continuity, YC Research, and our

Presumably it also includes YC (that used to be YC Core) - was including 'Y Combinator'in the list a slip - and it should have been YC?

Re: YC Changes

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Post by tedmiston »

lasryaric wrote: post #6
davmar wrote: post #5

ok.

Every blog post should have a TLDR like this one. TL;DR: Michael Seibel will be the new CEO of YC Core, which we are now just going to call "YC". Ali Rowghani is now the CEO of the YC Continuity Fund. I’m going to be the President of YC Group, which includes Y Combinator, YC Continuity, YC Research, and our new online class. We’ll add more organizational units over time. We’re going to replace the Fellowship with a m…

tldr.io has something like that and it integrates directly with HN.

http://tldr.io/browser-extension

Re: YC Changes

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Post by markdown »

elmar wrote: post #90
erikpukinskis wrote: post #37

I realize it's a joke, but it also seems quite unlikely to be true. To me, this is the biggest weakness of YC as an organization: a pernicious belief that what applies within their community applies to all communities. I have to wonder what kind of world Graham sees, if it's one in which all communities would welcome a person like Sam as leader. No disrespect to Sam and his substantial leadership qualities. Edit: It'…

you are assuming that all canibals are people of color, they could be white canibals.

Have there been any recorded white cannibal cultures?

Re: YC Changes

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Post by sandslash »

cperciva wrote: post #77
sandslash wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The initial thought process around financial aid in this case is to give founders the means to be able to work on their idea, project, or company. I'd like to think of it more as a grant. The grant will afford founders in more disadvantaged positions an opportunity to focus on their startup. We're still working out the details of program, but our aim is to encourage more people to work on their ideas, and hopefully h…

Got it. So funding for the ideas/projects/companies, not funding for the MOOC. I don't envy you the task of deciding who will get the grants (and I say this as someone who routinely pores through hundreds of undergraduate student applications for scholarships and awards). Is there any way you can structure the MOOC to give you a cheap-but-not-trivially-gameable grade? That way you could formulate the "startup grants"…

Yep! And I definitely appreciate your thoughtfulness and input. We are still fleshing out all the finer details of the program, but we will have a more detailed announcement soon.
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