Congrats, Randall and team!
Facebook buys Vidpresso's (YC W14) team and tech to make video interactive
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Re: Facebook buys Vidpresso's (YC W14) team and tech to make video interactive
#62Before he started Vidpresso, Randall was helping out my YC batch with feedback on their demo day pitches. It wasn't his job - he was just being helpful. The nicest guy you'd ever meet. Props to Randall on all the hard work building Vidpresso over the years - and congrats on the exit!
>> The nicest guy you'd ever meet. ...Or most scheming. Obviously his strategy worked out for him. Truly nice people don't care about making money so they wouldn't apply to Y Combinator to begin with.
His strategy of obtaining a HN comment from me 7 years later?
Re: Facebook buys Vidpresso's (YC W14) team and tech to make video interactive
#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
>> The nicest guy you'd ever meet. ...Or most scheming. Obviously his strategy worked out for him. Truly nice people don't care about making money so they wouldn't apply to Y Combinator to begin with.
His strategy of obtaining a HN comment from me 7 years later?
You know exactly what I mean but you can keep pretending not to. It's about signaling.
People who are accepted into Y Combinator know how to keep their eye on the ball; if they move a muscle, it is only to catch the ball. So yeah, I think he was just pretending to be nice.
Re: Facebook buys Vidpresso's (YC W14) team and tech to make video interactive
#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
His strategy of obtaining a HN comment from me 7 years later?
You know exactly what I mean but you can keep pretending not to. It's about signaling. People who are accepted into Y Combinator know how to keep their eye on the ball; if they move a muscle, it is only to catch the ball. So yeah, I think he was just pretending to be nice.
It's interesting you can infer so much negativity about me, a person with whom you've never had a single interaction.
I applied / was accepted into Y Combinator, therefore I "know how to keep my eye on the ball" and was the "most scheming." I also care a lot about money because "Truly nice people don't care about making money so they wouldn't apply to Y Combinator to begin with."
Did you ever think the goal of my application to y combinator, and subsequent acquisition by fb, were actually not driven by money, but by the vision of making video more like HTML... a vision from which i've been proceeding on since 2008? Money is great and good and everything, but seriously, I don't care about money. My real goal is to make my vision happen... money is a complete afterthought.
I realize this is casting pearls before swine, but seriously, you should realize sometimes people can be genuinely nice, and have genuinely good outcomes, without being scheming. In fact, PG wrote a whole essay about an email I once sent him, after I worried about not being scheming enough.
http://paulgraham.com/safe.html
Just saying. Maybe people are nice... and not all yc applicants care about money.
Re: Facebook buys Vidpresso's (YC W14) team and tech to make video interactive
#65Not sure what your plans are but I think there are tremendous upside into bundling their solution natively into the juggernaut that is Facebook Video/Watch. As much as the company has been decried for its influence lately, it means that innovations for acquisitions get to be put in front of a billion people or two (including getting support from engineers who dedicated years to getting code to run on quirky mobile OS…
Thank you so much! This is great. I'm super interested in making video interactive in a lot of places.
Re: Facebook buys Vidpresso's (YC W14) team and tech to make video interactive
#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
His strategy of obtaining a HN comment from me 7 years later?
You know exactly what I mean but you can keep pretending not to. It's about signaling. People who are accepted into Y Combinator know how to keep their eye on the ball; if they move a muscle, it is only to catch the ball. So yeah, I think he was just pretending to be nice.
Honestly, I didn't know what you meant. I actually thought your comment might have been sarcasm.