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> He joined Twitter in 2010 and held various roles during his five years with the company in business development, corporate strategy, platform operations, and

by S4M 11y ago

> He joined Twitter in 2010 and held various roles during his five years with the company in business development, corporate strategy, platform operations, and corporate development. Prior to Twitter, he was at The Carlyle Group, where he focused on technology and education investments. I never heard of Simon Lu before, but from the given description of his background, he seems like a typical corporate MBA, rather than someone who has experience founding a company and growing it, which, along various things YC has done in the couple of previous years, makes me think that YC is slowly moving towards becoming a typical VC.

djcapelis 11y ago
Yes, this has been more and more the trend. YC has slowly moved from adding people with deep technical skills, to adding people with finance backgrounds and deep ties in that community. It is inevitable, I suppose. When you start a VC firm, for many of the people you chose to join you end up being capitalists instead of technologists. And don't get me wrong, they sound like they're adding the best of the best and really amazing people in their fields. It sounds like these people are probably all really quite smart and amazing. But these people aren't hackers, they don't sound like one of us and their field isn't this one. It'll be interesting to see what happens to YC in the long term. I'm increasingly pessimistic. But it's not my portfolio, so it thankfully doesn't effect me in the least. :)
- csmajorfive 11y ago
  Who else do you put in this category?
  - djcapelis 11y ago
    Does that really sound like a productive conversation?
    - csmajorfive 11y ago
      > But these people aren't hackers, they don't sound like one of us and their field isn't this one. I was just wondering which "these people" you were referencing.
      - djcapelis 11y ago
        They're your colleagues... surely you'd have a better idea which ones are hackers and which aren't than I would?

by S4M 11y ago

djcapelis 11y ago

Yes, this has been more and more the trend. YC has slowly moved from adding people with deep technical skills, to adding people with finance backgrounds and deep ties in that community. It is inevitable, I suppose. When you start a VC firm, for many of the people you chose to join you end up being capitalists instead of technologists. And don't get me wrong, they sound like they're adding the best of the best and really amazing people in their fields. It sounds like these people are probably all really quite smart and amazing. But these people aren't hackers, they don't sound like one of us and their field isn't this one. It'll be interesting to see what happens to YC in the long term. I'm increasingly pessimistic. But it's not my portfolio, so it thankfully doesn't effect me in the least. :)

csmajorfive 11y ago
Who else do you put in this category?
- djcapelis 11y ago
  Does that really sound like a productive conversation?
  - csmajorfive 11y ago
    > But these people aren't hackers, they don't sound like one of us and their field isn't this one. I was just wondering which "these people" you were referencing.
    - djcapelis 11y ago
      They're your colleagues... surely you'd have a better idea which ones are hackers and which aren't than I would?