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Humans in their first few years of life are totally untrustworthy, yet most adults can be trusted. That falsifies your theory of trust. Do you want modify it to
by tlb 7y ago
Humans in their first few years of life are totally untrustworthy, yet most adults can be trusted. That falsifies your theory of trust. Do you want modify it to accommodate young people and/or young companies?
EDIT: toned down
- falcor84 7y agoHow does that falsify that theory of trust? I would take an extra set of pants for a long trip with a 5 year old even if they hadn't pooped their pants for a full year. It takes a long while before I let go of that preparedness.
- StavrosK 7y agoThe GP is saying that people (/companies?) change.
- ignoramous 7y agoLeaving aside the false equivalence of comparing a toddler with a company ran by adults with fully developed faculties of reason, judgement, choice, will etc; pooping your own pants is your own business. When it crosses the line that it affects others intentionally, the culture of the company is laid bare. There's so much emphasis from YC themselves to get the initial years right in terms of people and culture, but this was a genuine brain-fart and that such things do lose you customers for a lifetime, sometimes. Humans are fickle. But that's just like you know my opinion.