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Nothing to add, except I unironically love seeing this written on Hacker News on a story about a YC company. Genius should've stayed a bootstrapped side projec
by trynewideas 5y ago
Nothing to add, except I unironically love seeing this written on Hacker News on a story about a YC company.
Genius should've stayed a bootstrapped side project, but the founders got swept up in VC culture via YC and convinced themselves they were making a world-changing product. https://genius.com/Tom-lehman-how-rap-genius-raised-s18m-in-seed-funding-without-knowing-what-we-were-doing-annotated https://genius.com/Tom-lehman-how-rap-genius-raised-s18m-in-...