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Direct link to the app (PDF): http://dl.dropbox.com/u/19699329/FamilyLeaf_YC_application.p... P.S. Wow, small world. I went to the same high school as you guys. Good luck with FamilyLeaf, I'm now a big fan!
Dude! Interlake?? We should catch up! founders@familyleaf.com We're also now a big fan of you!
(I read in your YC app that you were from Bellevue so I Googled you and saw that you went to IHS. :)
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I am not saying that there should be hard rules. Just that there is a stigma there, and that it is there for a reason. Would you invest in a company with technical founders who got high every day?
Pot wouldn't be a factor in my investment decision; it would depend on the quality of work they did. I don't think drugs are incompatible with being a responsible and productive person. There would be downsides to high profile drug use, like what happened to Sean Parker at Facebook, where presumably there was fear that the LPs in various investors would raise issues. People can be useless fucktards with or without dr…
Pot isn't the worst thing ever, but it isn't going to help you start a business or become a great programmer. While you are high, you will be worse at reasoning and your working memory won't be great. This makes it harder to write code. There is also a legal risk, justified or not.
Drugs are a frustrating topic to debate. On one side there is a huge amount of misinformation intended to scare people away from drug use. Then, in reaction to that and coming out of the cognitive dissonance of millions of people doing something that they know isn't good for them, there is a ton of 'pot is good for you because it comes from the earth' bs on the other side. I think people on the internet (and apparently on HN) tend to be in the latter group, and I feel like it is worth pointing out the downsides.
Too bad YC got rid of the "if you were an animal, what would you be, and why" question, which was on the Dropbox-era application.
We never asked that. The question you're probably thinking of is: Tell us in one or two sentences something about each founder that shows he or she is an "animal," in the sense described in How to Start a Startup.
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We never asked that. The question you're probably thinking of is: Tell us in one or two sentences something about each founder that shows he or she is an "animal," in the sense described in How to Start a Startup.
I loved that question.
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I loved that question.
Out of curiosity what did you say?
"Animals? We're a freaking zoo.
Andy: When Paul described the type of person whom he
believes is an animal at his "How to Start a Startup"
talk, Andy was the first person of whom I (Steve) thought.
Steve: Steve regularly works extra hours at his current
programming job, even when over-time isn't an option (i.e.
working for free) to fix nagging bugs. At school, Steve
often works late nights with Computer Science friends
helping them get assignments working.
Alexis: See current schedule. When it comes to design,
Alexis literally won't rest until every pixel is aligned--
sleep deprivation is the status quo and when it comes to
working in general, coffee makes sure he's the last one to
go to sleep at night and the first one up in the morning."
Not that I care, but now the whole world know you got suspended for selling weed. This information cannot be good for you or your company, considering your family-oriented userbase
Thanks for putting up the application. I could clearly see how you guys aren't afraid to "break some laws" i.e. data scrapping, getting free food, and even weed selling!
Edit : should have said thanks in advance for the downvotes. Criticism is not accepted on hn these days.
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Dude! Interlake?? We should catch up! founders@familyleaf.com We're also now a big fan of you!
Ya, the good ol' Saints! Though, I graduated in '04. (I read in your YC app that you were from Bellevue so I Googled you and saw that you went to IHS. :)