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relevant part: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UacbJ72dluU#t=4m18s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UacbJ72dluU#t=4m18s
by doubleg 16y ago
relevant part:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UacbJ72dluU#t=4m18s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UacbJ72dluU#t=4m18s
- wccrawford 16y agoSo, to save everyone the time, the 'no asshole' rule means they don't accept assholes and has the obvious benefit that there aren't many assholes in the 'alumni'. That's it.
- maxklein 16y agoHow do they know who is an asshole and who is not?
- nuclear_eclipse 16y agoIt's usually rather obvious just by chatting with someone for more than 5 minutes. It's also more obvious to those who aren't themselves assholes... YMMV
- pg 16y agoWe ask Jessica, who has near perfect judgment of character.
- sanj 16y agoIs she available for contract work?
- pg 16y agoActually she does often do this for YC-funded startups that are hiring people.
- Eliezer 16y agoI can see how you could tell that most of the people she told you to hire ended up as non-assholes, but how do you know that the people she tells you not to hire would actually have been assholes?
- riffer 16y agoThat's an opportunity cost, and it turns out that the main thing to understand about opportunity costs is that nobody thinks about them the right way (including me, of course).
- ddelony 16y agoDoes she have some specific criteria, or is it like the infamous Supreme Court definition of pornography? ;-)
- credo 16y agofor me, it was impressive that he was modest - in noting (a couple of times) that there are exceptions.