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I'm surprised they got to shutdown YC Fellowship; is it already shut down, or they are planning on that next year. Without YC how one could get access to YC network and get one to one advice without moving to bayarea? online classes are not really one to one advice.
Also, YC frequently does open office hours that are open to anyone over Skype.
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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…
The use of TL;DR bothers me because the word "summary" is appropriate or even "key points". It's not common use among all groups of people (old timers for example who also could read a blog post) and it really doesn't serve any clear purpose that "summary" does not.
I think few people know the full history of tl;dr. When it first started appearing, it wasn't used by the author, but in response to the author (like you wrote something way too long winded I'm not reading that)
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'…
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…
PG wasnt joking when he said: "You could parachute [Sam] into an island full of cannibals and come back in 5 years and he'd be the king." - PG 5.5 years ago[1] [1] http://paulgraham.com/fundraising.html
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Correct. However, we may offer something like 'financial aid' for future versions of the MOOC.
I'm confused by this - coming from an academic background, the words "financial aid" mean "help with subsidized tuition fees" to me, but you've said that this is going to be free. Can you elaborate on what you're thinking here?
What the world needs is a solution to funding orders of magnitude more startups than currently get funded. YC is in the incredibly fortunate position of having this opportunity but instead it looks like Sam Altman is falling into the same trap Larry Page did with Google. He's turning it into a bit of a rich guy's playground... On behalf of the world that wasn't born into a world of wealth and elite connections: Pleas…
This is, however, a clear logistical challenge when you have a partner/advice model that doesn't scale all that easily. It may just turn out that an online, infinitely scalable net is precisely the best way to grow the number of great companies you can see and subsequently fund.
I don't think YC intends this to be a purely educational exercise.
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 assume if they practice cannibalism, they must be "people of color"?
Edit: context: parent states that PG's use of the phrase "an island full of cannibals" is "a commonly recognized form of racism"
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Correct. However, we may offer something like 'financial aid' for future versions of the MOOC.
I'm confused by this - coming from an academic background, the words "financial aid" mean "help with subsidized tuition fees" to me, but you've said that this is going to be free. Can you elaborate on what you're thinking here?
We're still working out the details of program, but our aim is to encourage more people to work on their ideas, and hopefully help startups be better in the long run.