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My suggestion? Paul and Paul, Robert, Jessica (and whoever else): Try to help each of us, here at news.YC - those who arent part of the elite club of YC funded
by juwo 19y ago
My suggestion?
Paul and Paul, Robert, Jessica (and whoever else): Try to help each of us, here at news.YC - those who arent part of the elite club of YC funded startups.
I dont see any of you helping any of us (those not in the club).
What if NOBODY were to apply to YC - would you have this fame and book sales and NY Times interviews? No.
You owe your institutional success to us. You are standing on our shoulders.
Furthermore, the structure of news.YC is not conducive to the rest of us helping each other. (Nevertheless, I can say I received valuable input from dpapathanasiou, goladus, npk etc., and I tried to provide the same to whoever asked).
You have an elite samurai school with yourself as the master and the rejects hanging from the outside gates trying to peer in.
You can do whatever you want. But if you are disliked, it comes with the territory.
I had an intriguing thought today: we come to resemble those we demonize.
You loathe Bill Gates (in my book, he has reformed into a saint), but his early interviews...
- nostrademons 19y agoThere are far too many of us on the site for YC to help each and every one of us. That's what the YC admissions process is for: to cut the numbers down to a manageable group. Speaking as a YC reject, I'd rather they limit the numbers and keep the quality up. PG et al aren't doing anyone any good if they "help" all 400 admitted startups but their help consists of a 3 sentence e-mail every month. Also, they may owe their institutional success to "us", with "us" being the class of entrepreneurs, but they don't owe their success to any individual one of "us". I, for example, have done nothing to help YCombinator become successful except spending lots of time on Reddit, and there're thousands of other people who could make that claim.
- Sam_Odio 19y agoPaul and Paul, Robert, Jessica (and whoever else) ... I dont see any of you helping any of us (those not in the club). If you're going to demand that the principals of YC help you, you might start by getting their names right ;). They are (ordered by last name) Trevor, Paul, Jessica and Robert. I think you might be confusing YEurope (that also has a Paul) with YC. Realistically, I don't think you can expect them to help us on an individual basis. They would receive no benefit from doing so, and it would just detract their time from the focus of YC.
- nostrademons 19y ago"Maybe if you took time out of your day to email a principal and offer some equity in exchange for mentorship/help, you might get some." Tried that, didn't work...
- juwo 19y agoSorry. I was thinking of Paul Buchheit. Isnt he part of YC? I am not "demanding" they help me. It was simply an observation. Frankly, I dont need their help in order to succeed. :) Though I am grateful to PG for this forum, news.YC I am waiting on Someone who is greater than all of them put together, to help me.