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Re: Why YC went to DC

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post #286

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He's not just out of touch he's actively pushing pretty horrific shit like the abolition of the state. He also agrees with Balaji about everything and therefore should not be trusted.

"Abolition of the state"? In the very article this thread is about he pushes for regulation against big tech, that does not sound like it could be achieved by abolition of the state

I wasn't referring to this article.

Re: Why YC went to DC

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post #286

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He's not just out of touch he's actively pushing pretty horrific shit like the abolition of the state. He also agrees with Balaji about everything and therefore should not be trusted.

"Abolition of the state"? In the very article this thread is about he pushes for regulation against big tech, that does not sound like it could be achieved by abolition of the state

Well really think about the mindset of someone who collectively hates “the state” do you think that person is going to be honest about their actions? Of course not everything is about yourself over everyone else. This is free speech and not a personal attack.

Re: Why YC went to DC

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post #70

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What’s ironic is that Michael Seibel has discussed many times on the YC podcast that you should avoid building whatever’s hot for VCs because their attention tends to change every year but you’ll be stuck building for a decade. 2020 was remote work, 2021 was web3, now we have the big LLM boom. Honestly it seems there’s a lot of advantages to “riding a wave” and a lot of advantages to being contrarian. But if raising…

On the other hand, I can see how basically any product can have some useful features backed by AI. I never felt that with web3.

That’s because you don’t understand the value of a decentralized blockchain in a zero trust world! /s

Re: Why YC went to DC

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post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What’s ironic is that Michael Seibel has discussed many times on the YC podcast that you should avoid building whatever’s hot for VCs because their attention tends to change every year but you’ll be stuck building for a decade. 2020 was remote work, 2021 was web3, now we have the big LLM boom. Honestly it seems there’s a lot of advantages to “riding a wave” and a lot of advantages to being contrarian. But if raising…

Here is Michael and Dalton talking couple of weeks ago about how new technologies create new businesses. Basically starting with the technology and then finding problems. The very opposite of what YC has been promoting all these years. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxjPgGLVJSg

This is really insanity. They just come up with some BS and spread it for marketing purposes only.

Re: Why YC went to DC

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post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What’s ironic is that Michael Seibel has discussed many times on the YC podcast that you should avoid building whatever’s hot for VCs because their attention tends to change every year but you’ll be stuck building for a decade. 2020 was remote work, 2021 was web3, now we have the big LLM boom. Honestly it seems there’s a lot of advantages to “riding a wave” and a lot of advantages to being contrarian. But if raising…

> What’s ironic is that Michael Seibel unfortunately Michael is no longer running things and it shows in the lack of long-term vision vs. hypecasting Garry has had this rep for a long time-disappointing to see this changing of guard

Hypecasting is a nice word

Re: Why YC went to DC

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post #155
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"This year, we’ll fund more than 500 companies out of 50,000 applications, and almost all of them are related to AI in some way." So, what this means: that in 2024, if you want to get VC capital, your startup must be related to AI.

I love the constant flex of their tiny acceptance rate. "We only accept 1% of applicants. Btw everyone should apply!" The collective man hours wasted on appe every year for what is essentially a lottery is insane.

I'd like to see the application dataset. 50000 applicants is a lot.

My guess would be: 90% of applicants are foreigners, maybe a fair bit of spam.

The rest 10% are domestic, and of those that were chosen, there's a lot of Stanford alma mater.

Re: Why YC went to DC

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post #148

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Haven’t seen any “Web 3” shills for a long time, gone right out of style it has!

Scroll back far enough on the X timelines of a few AI evangelists/specialists/advisers: oop, there they are. NFTs, Ethereum, altcoins.

Gotta do something with all those GPUs
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