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edit: I'm deleting this thread. I don't want to hijack Daniel Gross's hiring thread with negativity. Sorry.
by CptJamesCook 10y ago
edit: I'm deleting this thread. I don't want to hijack Daniel Gross's hiring thread with negativity. Sorry.
- harigov 10y agoDon't you think such people would be interested in investing on their own rather than part of YC as their partner? I don't know the revenue sharing approach that YC uses with their partners but I don't believe that it is good enough to make successful entrepreneurs who built a company with >500 employees to join them. Someone with more insider knowledge can comment.
- gogopuppygogo 10y agoWhy would someone that accomplished join this group? Peter Thiel started the Thiel Fellowship to do his own program.
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- eelliott 10y agoPeter Thiel is also a YC Partner
- nowarninglabel 10y agoWhy does it have to be someone who both created a business and scaled it to > 500? The skill-sets on founding vs. scaling are different and very few leaders possess both and had the drive to scale the company they founded to be that big.
- emmett 10y agoYou don't need partners great at scaling profitable companies from 100 to 500 employees. You need partners who know how to help a company go from two to ten employees and raise a first round of funding. I'm a part-time partner, and I run a company with >500 employees, but I basically draw entirely on my first 2-3 years of experience when giving advice.
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- nickfromseattle 10y agoIt would be interesting to hear about your experience making this transition, how you did it and how you would have done it differently knowing what you know now. Do you have any published content you can point to?