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On the flipside - Let's not act like ycombinator doesn't benefit from hn. YCombinator gets free advertising to a TON of good engineers for their companies roles
by cheeze 6y ago
On the flipside - Let's not act like ycombinator doesn't benefit from hn. YCombinator gets free advertising to a TON of good engineers for their companies roles (the posts that you can't comment on that mention X random ycombinator company is looking for Y role). Surely that has to be worth something...
I don't disagree with pg's statement here, but IMO yc gets pretty big benefit from running the forum.
- musicale 6y agoPresumably one or two good hires would more than compensate for years of running HN, but forum moderation is still a difficult and stressful job.
- renewiltord 6y agoInteresting. How do you account that? Two good hires can probably repeatably be obtained for under $100k in spending or giving away $100k of your company. Since Daniel G (dang) works on HN full time, and almost certainly makes more than $100k, that doesn't make sense to me.
- swyx 6y agois dang paid to do this? how does it work?
- dang 6y agoYes.
- blast 6y agoWhat does that have to do with how stressful he found it relative to other things at YC?