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>> The nicest guy you'd ever meet. ...Or most scheming. Obviously his strategy worked out for him. Truly nice people don't care about making money so they woul

>> The nicest guy you'd ever meet. ...Or most scheming. Obviously his strategy worked out for him. Truly nice people don't care about making money so they wouldn't apply to Y Combinator to begin with.

swampthing 8y ago
His strategy of obtaining a HN comment from me 7 years later?
- grosjona 8y ago
  You know exactly what I mean but you can keep pretending not to. It's about signaling. People who are accepted into Y Combinator know how to keep their eye on the ball; if they move a muscle, it is only to catch the ball. So yeah, I think he was just pretending to be nice.
  - randall 8y ago
    It's interesting you can infer so much negativity about me, a person with whom you've never had a single interaction. I applied / was accepted into Y Combinator, therefore I "know how to keep my eye on the ball" and was the "most scheming." I also care a lot about money because "Truly nice people don't care about making money so they wouldn't apply to Y Combinator to begin with." Did you ever think the goal of my application to y combinator, and subsequent acquisition by fb, were actually not driven by money, but by the vision of making video more like HTML... a vision from which i've been proceeding on since 2008? Money is great and good and everything, but seriously, I don't care about money. My real goal is to make my vision happen... money is a complete afterthought. I realize this is casting pearls before swine, but seriously, you should realize sometimes people can be genuinely nice, and have genuinely good outcomes, without being scheming. In fact, PG wrote a whole essay about an email I once sent him, after I worried about not being scheming enough. http://paulgraham.com/safe.html http://paulgraham.com/safe.html Just saying. Maybe people are nice... and not all yc applicants care about money.
  - swampthing 8y ago
    Honestly, I didn't know what you meant. I actually thought your comment might have been sarcasm.

swampthing 8y ago

His strategy of obtaining a HN comment from me 7 years later?

grosjona 8y ago
You know exactly what I mean but you can keep pretending not to. It's about signaling. People who are accepted into Y Combinator know how to keep their eye on the ball; if they move a muscle, it is only to catch the ball. So yeah, I think he was just pretending to be nice.
- randall 8y ago
  It's interesting you can infer so much negativity about me, a person with whom you've never had a single interaction. I applied / was accepted into Y Combinator, therefore I "know how to keep my eye on the ball" and was the "most scheming." I also care a lot about money because "Truly nice people don't care about making money so they wouldn't apply to Y Combinator to begin with." Did you ever think the goal of my application to y combinator, and subsequent acquisition by fb, were actually not driven by money, but by the vision of making video more like HTML... a vision from which i've been proceeding on since 2008? Money is great and good and everything, but seriously, I don't care about money. My real goal is to make my vision happen... money is a complete afterthought. I realize this is casting pearls before swine, but seriously, you should realize sometimes people can be genuinely nice, and have genuinely good outcomes, without being scheming. In fact, PG wrote a whole essay about an email I once sent him, after I worried about not being scheming enough. http://paulgraham.com/safe.html http://paulgraham.com/safe.html Just saying. Maybe people are nice... and not all yc applicants care about money.
- swampthing 8y ago
  Honestly, I didn't know what you meant. I actually thought your comment might have been sarcasm.