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You're on Hacker News at ycombinator.com and you have no idea why folks here associate hackers and startups?
by skedaddle 6y ago
You're on Hacker News at ycombinator.com and you have no idea why folks here associate hackers and startups?
- zorpner 6y agoThe point is that this represents a coöption of the term hacker by the venture capitalist community -- it's always easier to convince someone to accept less value as recompense for what they produce by convincing them that they are engaged in a noble or even a personally virtuous (see e.g. "guru", "rockstar") pursuit.
- marcinzm 6y agoI associate hackers as a group that startups wants to hire not as having similar philosophies. To me this site is a very successful marketing/recruitment tool and not some indication that YC follows the hacker ethos.