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Is Peter Thiel still a Y Combinator partner?
Peter Thiel became a part time YCombinator partner in march 2015. [1] Thiel will serve as a delegate for Donald Trump and speak at his nominating convention. Among other things, Donald Trump has proposed banning muslim immigration and building a database of muslim americans.
Paul Graham has said that "We just cannot let Donald Trump become president. It would destroy this country." [2]
Sam Altman has said that "To anyone familiar with the history of Germany in the 1930s, it's chilling to watch Trump in action". [3]
[1] https://blog.ycombinator.com/welcome-peter
[2] https://twitter.com/paulg/status/727902623597105153
[3] http://blog.samaltman.com/trump
Obviously people with differing political beliefs can put them aside and work together, but these are some unusually strong statements from Graham and Altman. Thiel's participation in YCombinator also raises some troubling issues for potential founders. Are there any Latino or Muslim ycombinator founders? Are they expected to interact with Thiel?
- angersock 10y ago> Theil's participation in YCombinator also raises some troubling issues for potential founders. Does it? Nazi gold is still gold. Entrepreneurs don't have the luxury of ideology.
- jpeg_hero 10y agoInterested in getting a statement from sama or pg
- bxb1552 10y agoHis name is spelled Thiel.
- voodoomagicman 10y agoedited to correct spelling
- voodoomagicman 10y agoclickable links: [1] https://blog.ycombinator.com/welcome-peter https://blog.ycombinator.com/welcome-peter [2] https://twitter.com/paulg/status/727902623597105153 https://twitter.com/paulg/status/727902623597105153 [3] http://blog.samaltman.com/trump http://blog.samaltman.com/trump
- MichaelBurge 10y agoAre people really going to go on a witch-hunt looking for Trump supporters now?
- sb8244 10y agoDoes changing "Trump supporters" to "racist bigots" change anything? I think that is the point OP makes. If one fully supports Trump, then another can easily extrapolate that one supports his major positions.
- zorpner 10y agoYes, of course. It's a strong moral imperative to challenge violent bigotry at every opportunity.
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- stonogo 10y agoThe difference between Graham/Altman and Thiel is: someone asked Thiel to speak at a political event. Graham and Altman suffer from severe Dunning-Kruger effect, specifically in the realm of politics.
- throwaway274739 10y agoIf he still is, then that's just sad, pathetic and hurtful.
- gojomo 10y agoPurges suck.