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The House Fund, a new seed fund for UC Berkeley

30 points by adenadel 11y ago

adenadel 11y ago
Jeremy also wrote an introduction to the House Fund https://medium.com/@thehousefund/introducing-the-house-fund-built-for-berkeley-5cc1457b9891 https://medium.com/@thehousefund/introducing-the-house-fund-...
jaksmit 11y ago
Jeremy hustled really hard to raise this fund. I look forward to seeing the awesome investments that he makes
- dikdik 11y ago
  Off topic, but I really loathe the word "hustled" that is ever popular in tech circles. Where I am from "to hustle" or a "hustler" means to rip someone off, to take advantage of someone and provide as little value as possible. I'm never sure if people are talking about ripping others off to make a profit or just mean working really fast and diligently.
  - a_small_island 11y ago
    Well...it clearly has several meanings. If you ever were apart of a sports team, you know that hustle has nothing to do with ripping anyone off.
  - ibrahima 11y ago
    Isn't using hustle as a term for hard work pretty common in sports teams? Like, a coach might tell his team "Good hustle" for working hard. I think you're kind of right though in that in the tech industry it feels like it means a little of both aspects depending on context.
    - marincounty 11y ago
      It is, but since we all watch, listen to so much media, the meaning of words changes faster than I want to keep up with. I think hustle is fine, but I wouldn't to use in in a business related field these days. All those Rap song lyrics come out a weird times? The big rapper, who smokes too much pot, and used to be a correctional officer, while is having anxiety attacks form smoking too much pot, had a big song. All I remember is "I gotta always be hustling". Insinuating this Rapper need to break laws daily in order to survive. I did like the song though. Forget the rapper's name.
beeboop 11y ago
> He’s sharp. (He graduated with an interdisciplinary studies degree, having studied business, engineering, and design). In my experience, interdisciplinary studies degrees have the reputation of being for the people who are sort of dumb, failed to pass upper level classes for intended major, and wound up doing general studies because they had so many credit hours they couldn't use towards a single degree. Are interdisciplinary studies degrees especially difficult or indicative of intelligence elsewhere? >It’s easy to understand their interest in Fiance. Not really, and this article doesn't help at all either. The argument seems to be that he made some some Photoshop graphics and pitched the idea of "Why not me?" to a group of people he probably had connections with through friends or family. There is lots of stuff that is seemingly bullshit in this article I can't even be bothered to address specifically.

30 points by adenadel 11y ago

Jeremy also wrote an introduction to the House Fund https://medium.com/@thehousefund/introducing-the-house-fund-built-for-berkeley-5cc1457b9891 https://medium.com/@thehousefund/introducing-the-house-fund-...

jaksmit 11y ago

Jeremy hustled really hard to raise this fund. I look forward to seeing the awesome investments that he makes

dikdik 11y ago
Off topic, but I really loathe the word "hustled" that is ever popular in tech circles. Where I am from "to hustle" or a "hustler" means to rip someone off, to take advantage of someone and provide as little value as possible. I'm never sure if people are talking about ripping others off to make a profit or just mean working really fast and diligently.
- a_small_island 11y ago
  Well...it clearly has several meanings. If you ever were apart of a sports team, you know that hustle has nothing to do with ripping anyone off.
- ibrahima 11y ago
  Isn't using hustle as a term for hard work pretty common in sports teams? Like, a coach might tell his team "Good hustle" for working hard. I think you're kind of right though in that in the tech industry it feels like it means a little of both aspects depending on context.
  - marincounty 11y ago
    It is, but since we all watch, listen to so much media, the meaning of words changes faster than I want to keep up with. I think hustle is fine, but I wouldn't to use in in a business related field these days. All those Rap song lyrics come out a weird times? The big rapper, who smokes too much pot, and used to be a correctional officer, while is having anxiety attacks form smoking too much pot, had a big song. All I remember is "I gotta always be hustling". Insinuating this Rapper need to break laws daily in order to survive. I did like the song though. Forget the rapper's name.

beeboop 11y ago

> He’s sharp. (He graduated with an interdisciplinary studies degree, having studied business, engineering, and design). In my experience, interdisciplinary studies degrees have the reputation of being for the people who are sort of dumb, failed to pass upper level classes for intended major, and wound up doing general studies because they had so many credit hours they couldn't use towards a single degree. Are interdisciplinary studies degrees especially difficult or indicative of intelligence elsewhere? >It’s easy to understand their interest in Fiance. Not really, and this article doesn't help at all either. The argument seems to be that he made some some Photoshop graphics and pitched the idea of "Why not me?" to a group of people he probably had connections with through friends or family. There is lots of stuff that is seemingly bullshit in this article I can't even be bothered to address specifically.