No, but look at YC's bio page at http://ycombinator.com/people.html http://ycombinator.com/people.html "Robert Morris is an associate professor of computer sc

No, but look at YC's bio page at http://ycombinator.com/people.html http://ycombinator.com/people.html "Robert Morris is an associate professor of computer science at MIT, where he is a member of the PDOS group. He has published extensively on wireless networks, distributed operating systems, and peer-to-peer applications. In 1988 his discovery of buffer overflow first brought the Internet to the attention of the general public. He has an AB and PhD in Computer Science from Harvard." Emphasize the positive. But it only works if you have a lot of positive to emphasize, and if whatever you're downplaying really isn't important.