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Y Combinator CEO AMA: “I Got Kicked Out of Yale Then Sold My Startup for $1B”
- IntronExon 9y agoI truly admire the guts it must have taken to walk away from such a derailment, and not only keep going, but thriving. That’s one view of what exceptional looks like, to me.
- stmw 9y agoDidn't Dick Cheney also get kicked out of Yale?
- beegeezuz 9y agoThe lesson here is, drop out of school and become rich. Lots of people got kicked out or weren't admitted and didn't make $1B but are living in an alley somewhere instead. So who knows...
- Art9681 9y agoI've always wondered how its possible to fund something like Twitch from the outset. Did they have a lot of capital at the beginning? I would think the costs of storage and servers to support a bunch of high quality streaming video would be huge. Does anyone have insight into this? Is it feasible for someone with little capital to do something like this? Just curious how streaming sites stay alive before they monetize.