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> Would Cruise have been accepted to Y Combinator at all if it had just been Kyle applying? Are you seriously asking if YC would have accepted the former co-fo
by jamiequint 11y ago
> Would Cruise have been accepted to Y Combinator at all if it had just been Kyle applying?
Are you seriously asking if YC would have accepted the former co-founder of a company that sold for over a billion dollars? Isn't the answer to that question obvious?
- snowwrestler 11y agoWell, answer the other questions then. Granting 50% of equity is a lot, and as an experienced entrepreneur, Kyle would know that. But he wrote it down as the plan. Why? These are the sorts of questions a court will be asked to ponder.
- karamazov 11y agoThe answer is, Kyle was entirely comfortable granting 50% equity because it was subject to standard vesting, and everyone involved understood that Jeremy would own no part of the company if he left in the first year.
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- danso 11y agoNot without begging the question. Because we could rephrase your sentiment as, "Are you seriously asking whether a co-founder of a billion dollar company should list some unknown engineer as his 50/50 co-founder on a YC application?" Most people would say, "Of course not", and yet it is currently undisputed that Guillory's name is listed as such. And so no, the answer is not obvious.
- jamiequint 11y ago> we could rephrase your sentiment as, "Are you seriously asking whether a co-founder of a billion dollar company should list some unknown engineer as his 50/50 co-founder on a YC application?" Please don't, that is a completely different question. I'm honestly not sure how you managed to conflate the two.