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Re: New YC homepage

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Post by sailfast »

Not sure formidable founders getting whatever they want whatever the obstacle (sure market obstacles but what about laws, morality, etc) is a good thing to be honest.

Sometimes folks need to be stopped. Sometimes those walls are there for a reason.

And after IPO, maybe a founder should consider the good of the world instead of what you think you want next for yourself and just bashing down more walls.

But I dunno… I’m just a rando.

Re: New YC homepage

#73

Post by autoexec »

robertwpearce wrote: post #72
autoexec wrote: post #30

Doesn't seem to display anything with JS disabled so it's a fail in my book, but I accept that I'll be in the minority here.

Same! uBlock on Firefox lists ~280 scripts blocked

Yeah, I took a glance at the source and thought the list of scripts was insane too. Even if all of that code is needed (and I doubt it is) combining them a bit would save a whole lot of requests. It's almost like every function got its own file.

Re: New YC homepage

#76

Post by imiric »

conductr wrote: post #59
PyWoody wrote: post #57

I think I was on HN for at least three years before I realized they even had a homepage. I might check this one out in the next couple of years.

The most well funded forum ever

And it only needs one server! (Maybe they can afford a hot spare now?)

A real lesson in frugality.

Re: New YC homepage

#77

Post by camillomiller »

sailfast wrote: post #71

Not sure formidable founders getting whatever they want whatever the obstacle (sure market obstacles but what about laws, morality, etc) is a good thing to be honest. Sometimes folks need to be stopped. Sometimes those walls are there for a reason. And after IPO, maybe a founder should consider the good of the world instead of what you think you want next for yourself and just bashing down more walls. But I dunno… I’…

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Re: New YC homepage

#78

Post by [deleted] »

verdverm wrote: post #19
alephnerd wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

YC has always been founder first. Back when they started in the 2000s, most traditional VCs didn't recognize that high impact individuals can easily pivot or define product categories, and only concentrated on financial engineering (DCF go brrrrrr ). YC often also mentors founders on pivots (I'd say at least a third of all startups that make it to demo day were mentored into some sort of a pivot). YC also needs to pi…

> YC also needs to pivot It's been reported that the ratio of mentors to founders had become quite bad. Seems quality has gone down since they tried to scale something that doesn't scale

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Re: New YC homepage

#79

Post by camillomiller »

raleighm wrote: post #64
amelius wrote: post #45

Looks cool, though I have to be honest that I'm not a big fan of showing only the survivor stories.

I had the same reaction. Also the new vibe feels less like “make something people want” and more like “join the pantheon.”

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Re: New YC homepage

#80

Post by padolsey »

sailfast wrote: post #71

Not sure formidable founders getting whatever they want whatever the obstacle (sure market obstacles but what about laws, morality, etc) is a good thing to be honest. Sometimes folks need to be stopped. Sometimes those walls are there for a reason. And after IPO, maybe a founder should consider the good of the world instead of what you think you want next for yourself and just bashing down more walls. But I dunno… I’…

Yeh I don't think there's much value in a credo if it celebrates Altman. He's a terrible idol to have. He compared Trump to Hitler in 2016, then donated $1M to his inauguration and tweeted about being in an "NPC trap" when he criticized him. Took about six weeks after the election to flip. Testified to Congress that AI regulation is "essential," then lobbied against California's safety bill when it actually showed up. His own board fired him for lying to them for years. His safety team leads quit in protest saying safety took a backseat to shiny products. Multiple former colleagues, including the people who left to start Anthropic, describe psychological abuse and manipulation. Claims a $65k salary while sitting on a billion-dollar fortune built through conflicts of interest. He's not a good guy. He's a guy who says whatever serves him in the moment and has left a trail of people warning us about exactly that.
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