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I want to be a farmer. Is there a place for me in YCombinator? (p.s. I have several other follow up questions I'd love to ask if you entertain me with a respo

I want to be a farmer. Is there a place for me in YCombinator? (p.s. I have several other follow up questions I'd love to ask if you entertain me with a response)

sama 10y ago
If you want to be a farmer, why do you want to be in YC? We are the best in the world at helping people be some things, but probably not that :(
- wcchandler 10y ago
  Not sure if rhetorical, so I appreciate the thought exercise and your approach to a simple question. If you were genuinely interested -- there's quite a few reasons why YC is appealing but ultimately one thing sticks out. Farming has a lot of potential for control and subsequently, abuse. You said in a recent blog post -- if I can grow the product either better or cheaper (talking about food/produce), I'll win. With current technologies and my background and experience it seems very likely I will be successful. YC is one of very few organizations that I trust to assist and embrace the humanitarian responsibility of being a potential global leader. In a nutshell.
  - mattkrisiloff 10y ago
    fwiw we've funded Iron Ox (http://ironox.com/ http://ironox.com/) -- they're basically farmers
rojobuffalo 10y ago
Hey, I applied to YC with a web platform for farmers. Are you strictly wanting to be a farmer or are you primarily interested in helping farmers?
- wcchandler 10y ago
  Whats your product and use case? Right now I'm only interested in being a farmer, but I'm a technologist at heart and would love to hear about your product.
  - rojobuffalo 10y ago
    I spent several months farming in Oregon this year I definitely see the appeal of making it a career. This product is a web platform for allocating and measuring resources in local food systems. It's aimed at any farmer on < 50 hectares, but especially entrepreneur farmers who have limited resources.

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I want to be a farmer. Is there a place for me in YCombinator? (p.s. I have several other follow up questions I'd love to ask if you entertain me with a respo

by wcchandler 10y ago

I want to be a farmer. Is there a place for me in YCombinator? (p.s. I have several other follow up questions I'd love to ask if you entertain me with a response)

sama 10y ago
If you want to be a farmer, why do you want to be in YC? We are the best in the world at helping people be some things, but probably not that :(
- wcchandler 10y ago
  Not sure if rhetorical, so I appreciate the thought exercise and your approach to a simple question. If you were genuinely interested -- there's quite a few reasons why YC is appealing but ultimately one thing sticks out. Farming has a lot of potential for control and subsequently, abuse. You said in a recent blog post -- if I can grow the product either better or cheaper (talking about food/produce), I'll win. With current technologies and my background and experience it seems very likely I will be successful. YC is one of very few organizations that I trust to assist and embrace the humanitarian responsibility of being a potential global leader. In a nutshell.
  - mattkrisiloff 10y ago
    fwiw we've funded Iron Ox (http://ironox.com/ http://ironox.com/) -- they're basically farmers
rojobuffalo 10y ago
Hey, I applied to YC with a web platform for farmers. Are you strictly wanting to be a farmer or are you primarily interested in helping farmers?
- wcchandler 10y ago
  Whats your product and use case? Right now I'm only interested in being a farmer, but I'm a technologist at heart and would love to hear about your product.
  - rojobuffalo 10y ago
    I spent several months farming in Oregon this year I definitely see the appeal of making it a career. This product is a web platform for allocating and measuring resources in local food systems. It's aimed at any farmer on < 50 hectares, but especially entrepreneur farmers who have limited resources.