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Re: Welcome Home, Garry Tan

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Post by alephnan »

wahnfrieden wrote: post #132
Vaslo wrote: post #125

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You can talk about it but when most folks in tech are fairly to extremely liberal, why is it bad to have representation from all sides? The left (which I’m guessing you are a part of) preaches diversity. Shouldn’t diversity also include political views as well as race, class, and gender affiliation?

this is their first and only openly politically-active hire at this level, with the politics explicitly relevant to their hiring, I don't know why you're calling that balanced representation unless you mean that it's balanced to have right wing leader-owners dominate liberals and leftist workers (lol)

For one, it would mean leadership that recognizes that Asians have been unfairly represented.

When we’re talking about left-winged workers, we’re talking about a bunch of ivory tower armchair leftists who get free lunch ( no irony intended ) and artisanal coffee, and have been the privileged class most of their lives.

If we’re talking about actual laborers, the democrats has abandoned that platform and serves the political gap that Donald Trump capitalized on.

Re: Welcome Home, Garry Tan

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Post by _8j50 »

garry wrote: post #3

Believe it or not, my journey to Y Combinator started similar to how you may experience YC — through being a regular lurker and reader on Hacker News. I went to Startup School, me and my cofounders applied, we got an interview, and we got in. I was an engineer, designer and PM. I'd built teams and products, but I'd never built a company. YC gave me a shot, a community, knowhow, and the ability to access capital, tale…

How was Palantir and Mr. Thiel's leadership?

Re: Welcome Home, Garry Tan

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Post by dang »

psi75 wrote: post #221
dang wrote: post #214

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Please stop with the existing sockpuppets as well.

Is it that unbelievable that its role in a years-long effort to destroy a good man's reputation, as well as in a coverup of that effort, has made your organization disliked by more than one person?

Yes.

Re: Welcome Home, Garry Tan

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Post by Apocryphon »

anotherfounder wrote: post #183
extent-connifer wrote: post #59

(Throwaway because it’s a small world) This is disappointing. YC needs a fresh perspective. Recycling older members is not a positive sign for continued innovation. I wouldn’t point to “HODL diamond hands” crypto hype (suddenly disappeared..) and personal brand-building content creation as the type of leadership YC needs at this stage. Specifically in this, someone who has been running a large VC fund for the past ha…

I didn't realize Garry was so crypto-y. Now as the President and CEO of YC where everyone constantly says "Make something people want", "Solve a real problem", I'm curious for him to chime in to the 'What's a real use-case for crypto?' debate.

Gotta challenge a16z muscling into that space.

Re: Welcome Home, Garry Tan

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Post by alephnan »

12_throw_away wrote: post #107
12_throw_away wrote: post #105

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Besides the "block anyone remotely progressive" approach to social media (including industry folks like Anil Dash [1]) - he seems extremely uncivil and rude [2]. And Sam Altman has explicitly referenced his politics as a reason for this decision [3]. This gives me the impression that there's a specific political agenda being advanced at YC ... [1] https://twitter.com/anildash/status/1564285359755874304?s=20... [2] ht…

So, why the downvotes? We're not allowed to talk about this?

If you had an indefensible objective argument to make, you wouldn't have used a throwaway

Re: Welcome Home, Garry Tan

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Post by Apocryphon »

hackernewds wrote: post #79
Aeolun wrote: post #68

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I dunno, but Palantir has always been a little bit… I mean, it’s kinda in the name.

Not really

By the time of the LoTR timeframe, when have the palantiri ever been used for good? Seems like malevolently misleading things happen even to the evil characters after they use it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palant%C3%ADr#Characteristics

Re: Welcome Home, Garry Tan

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Post by senttoschool »

senttoschool wrote: post #207
SamReidHughes wrote: post #192

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> This is Gary saying that ETH will go up to $10k soon: Well actually, 1. He didn't say it will go up to $10k "soon." That video is talking about long-term performance. 2. ETH is down just ~~27%~~ 41% since that video, and has moved farther up than down. 3. It's only been a year since the video, which is talking about The Merge as one of the factors behind this belief, and The Merge hasn't happened yet. 4. Quote from…

>1. He didn't say it will go up to $10k "soon." That video is talking about long-term performance. I remember reading his LinkedIn post on this $10k topic. In it, I think he said something along the lines of "soon". But it really doesn't matter. Saying $10k ETH is the same as a random crypto bro saying $100k BTC soon. There are no fundamentals. Just shilling. Marketing. Ponzi-like behavior. I don't doubt that ETH mig…

>I remember reading his LinkedIn post on this $10k topic. In it, I think he said something along the lines of "soon".

Ok, I can't find his LinkedIn post on $10k ETH anymore. Maybe he deleted.

But I distinctly remember wording around "soon".

Re: Welcome Home, Garry Tan

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Post by psi75 »

dang wrote: post #243
psi75 wrote: post #221

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Is it that unbelievable that its role in a years-long effort to destroy a good man's reputation, as well as in a coverup of that effort, has made your organization disliked by more than one person?

Yes.

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Re: Welcome Home, Garry Tan

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Post by TheEzEzz »

garry wrote: post #3

Believe it or not, my journey to Y Combinator started similar to how you may experience YC — through being a regular lurker and reader on Hacker News. I went to Startup School, me and my cofounders applied, we got an interview, and we got in. I was an engineer, designer and PM. I'd built teams and products, but I'd never built a company. YC gave me a shot, a community, knowhow, and the ability to access capital, tale…

Huge news and big congrats! You've been an awesome inspiration. I'm really looking forward to where you take YC.
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