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Based on what data exactly? Gut feelings? What could be faster than communications across vast distances at the speed of light?
For some problems? 15 minutes with a whiteboard. There’s no good e-replacement. For other problems? Sure, slack and zoom are perfectly adequate to preferable.
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S06 was also the --first batch-- (Edit: I was mistaken, S05 was the first batch, but the rest still stands), well before YC was the "hit maker" its known as today, so it's not surprising that class didn't do as well as subsequent ones. The acceptance rate for startups into YC now is miniscule compared to what it was in 2006.
>so it's not surprising that class didn't do as well as subsequent ones But it also didn't do as well as the previous ones. I don't know when exactly YC got that "hit maker" reputation you are talking about, but S06 is an outlier regardless. The class directly before and directly after had failure rates of 29% and 38% compared to S06's 73%. The only classes coming close to the failure rates of S06 were in the lead up…
For example, in S06 there was one big exit (OMGpop), one company still alive and very well known today (Scribd), and one what I'd call "failure with an exit" - Xobni sold for a relatively low 60 million to Yahoo and was then shutdown.
Compare that with the batch directly after that, W07, which had 13 companies. Of those 13, it had one smash hit (Twitch) and one other relatively big success (Weebly). While it may have a lot fewer overall "dead" markers than S06, a lot of its exits look like acqui-hires or "OK buy our IP before we die" type exits. Better than an outright "dead" score I guess, but from the perspective of a VC like YC it hardly makes any difference. Point being I think it's a stretch to say there were really much significance in the "success difference" between S06 and W07 despite the differences in dead counts (with the possible exception that Twitch ended up being such a home run, but those are so rare they average 1 or fewer per batch anyway).
> We've now tried every point on the spectrum: fully remote, hybrid and fully in-person. So now we don't have to worry if we're being luddites: in-person YC just really is the best. How was this determined to be best? (Obviously, they haven't controlled for variables like the switch to 4 smaller batches, and the high percentage of startups all doing one exciting thing (AI). And do they realize the costs. And is it be…
Whereas in any thread about WFH it seems that 95% of HN has concluded that remote just really is the best. Case close. No further study needed. The only reason to think otherwise is corporate greed.
From my perspective WFH saves me so much time, money, and stress that I’d be insane to not insist on it. Why would I read a study that doesn’t take my perspective into account?
WFH saves me tens of thousands a year. Any conversation that ignores the financial impact of return to office from my point of view is worthless.
I wondered what was the last time you could say that "half the YC batch is working on an X startup", for any value of X. When did this pseudo math talk creep into normal speech? It reeks of charlatans pretending to be technical when there is no need to be technical.
> We've now tried every point on the spectrum: fully remote, hybrid and fully in-person. So now we don't have to worry if we're being luddites: in-person YC just really is the best. How was this determined to be best? (Obviously, they haven't controlled for variables like the switch to 4 smaller batches, and the high percentage of startups all doing one exciting thing (AI). And do they realize the costs. And is it be…
I don’t know much about YC but I do know it isn’t a regular working environment. It’s a lot more intense and hands-on, qualities which indeed tend to be better in-person. It’s also for only 11 weeks. Other companies probably want to be always be intense and hands-on and have the YC atmosphere, but that’s actually a terrible way to manage a company, a recipe for getting everyone to burnout and quit, and even if people…
This is off topic, but it’s crazy to me that the current incarnation of Twitter still seems to be the communication platform of choice for a good portion of the tech community. Presumably Jared still considers it to be the best way to share this information despite the fact that the app is so user hostile. Even using nitter to bypass these restrictions, we’re still breaking a paragraph into separate posts, as if shar…
As for bleeding edge people using it, if someone is still using this platform they lose all credibility with me.
If (you are democrat ) read above post If (you are not democrat ) Twitter is great! If (you are female ) Twitter is sexist If (well you get the picture ) ...
This is off topic, but it’s crazy to me that the current incarnation of Twitter still seems to be the communication platform of choice for a good portion of the tech community. Presumably Jared still considers it to be the best way to share this information despite the fact that the app is so user hostile. Even using nitter to bypass these restrictions, we’re still breaking a paragraph into separate posts, as if shar…
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Reminds me of those tedious recipe blogs that require so much scrolling, but even worse since there's no easy print on X.
The "tedious recipe blogs that require so much scrolling" usually first start with an emotional story about how the dish reminds the author of their childhood, which is included (presumably) to milk SEO and also annoy readers, followed by a recipe with maybe one photo. This is a recipe with short (but not one-liners) yet helpful instructions, including images of how the cooking process would work. Do you have an exam…
It was just recipes.
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Yes. I posted in it yesterday, in my own "threads" I see the posts' age reflecting that, when I look at this thread they are now only a few hours old.
Oh, interesting, this shows up in the second chance pool: https://news.ycombinator.com/pool I knew this was a thing, but I didn't realize it worked by messing with timestamps.
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
> We've now tried every point on the spectrum: fully remote, hybrid and fully in-person. So now we don't have to worry if we're being luddites: in-person YC just really is the best. How was this determined to be best? (Obviously, they haven't controlled for variables like the switch to 4 smaller batches, and the high percentage of startups all doing one exciting thing (AI). And do they realize the costs. And is it be…
To put it another way... In-person is best for the business in the short term and detrimental to their long term but it is a sacrifice startups make as they have no long term without the short term success so just punt all the long term stuff until they've made it that far.