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WHOA: Mark Zuckerberg's Little Sister Ariel Just Got Rejected By Y Combinator

• Xuzz 15y ago
  (Is that "WHOA" needed? I understand it's in the original headline, but having it in all-caps on the Hacker News homepage is slightly annoying.) Anyway, I don't find this strange at all. If I was going to guess who, if anyone, would be objective and focus only on merits, I'd put pg and Y Combinator near the top of the list.
• james_ladd 15y ago
  Interesting. I wonder if she tried to convince big brother first?
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• kloncks 15y ago
  So? 50 get accepted out of every 2,000+. They admit their prototype wasn't well-polished. This is like the relative of a famous celebrity (or scientist) not getting into an elite school and admitting some part of their application - essay, scores, whatever - wasn't as well as it should have been. Am I the only one insulted by this article? If anything, it's also irresponsible of SF Chronicle of sticking both of these girls in the limelight. Imagine if she wasn't Zuck's sister; should your rejection somewhere be published in a major newspaper?
• molecule 15y ago
  "On sheer clout alone, the pair seemed like a shoo-in." I don't think the author is familiar w/ Y Combinator.
• igorgue 15y ago
  ""I once asked her to enter a long long list of names into an excel document. Arielle came back and asked me if it was alright if she wrote a program to do it automatically...at which point i told her she should just do what she thought was best at all times," says one of Zuckerberg's former colleagues." That made me giggle... Any programmer would do that: echo "Name,Age"; tr -s ' ' ',' < list.txt Name,Age John,19 Carl,34 Pedro,56