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Google Traps Zenter in Coding Zoo
- aristus 19y agoGah. The blood's in the water, eh? What a nasty, self-serving piece of work.
- dfranke 19y agoWhere's my down arrow? I was hoping for an update on how the Zenters were faring at Google and when we'd get to use something derived from their work. Instead I just got this vitriolic ramble.
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- spiralhead 19y agoNice marketing stunt, lady
- SwellJoe 19y agoBitterness, thy name is Donna Bogatin (whoever that is).
- Hexstream 19y agoThe proper way to read this article: 1. Read the last two paragraphs and realize it's an ad. 2. Omit to read the rest.
- tim2 19y agoInvestment bankers trashing hackers. What to say.
- TrevorJ 19y agoThere isn't unnecessarily a duality here. After all, he is doing the lions' share of the creative and coding work before the startups get sold.
- ashu 19y agoI don't know what I should be annoyed with more: the fact that idiots like this person are making pointless (or argument-less) noise or the fact that such noise is making it to the top of HN! I mean, anti-YC news is absolutely fine, but it should at least be making some point!
- bfioca 19y agoWow, this is bad. But it gives me an opportunity to counter her main point. I actually talked to Wayne of Zenter about this very thing - I asked him whether he felt any remorse or negativity about going from starting Zenter to working for Google. I was really curious about it, personally. He emphatically refuted any such notion! He told me he has been very happy there and was impressed by the way that google works and the process they have. I anticipated that response but it seemed very heartfelt and emphatic. I suspect that Google probably doesn't fit in to many of the big company stereotypes... I think that would've been obvious to anyone who'd done even a little bit of homework on the topic.
- astrec 19y ago"Donna Bogatin's purported distaste for YCombinator is belied, however, by her self-interested appropriation of Paul Graham's essay to pitch a competitive offering."