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> Tan was Palantir's tenth employee, and his relationship with Thiel dates back to their college days at Stanford. Wat? According to Wikipedia, Thiel was born
by NtochkaNzvanova 3y ago
> Tan was Palantir's tenth employee, and his relationship with Thiel dates back to their college days at Stanford.
Wat? According to Wikipedia, Thiel was born in 1967, Tan in 1981. How could they have shared "college days at Stanford"?
More to the point of the article, "not meant to have a boss" is one of the cliche YC marketing lines, straight out of a pg essay. The only people who don't have a boss are people with FU money. Being a grinding startup founder doesn't mean you don't have a boss; it means you report to your board, and you have (maybe) a 0.1% chance of making FU money, instead of 0.000001% chance working as an employee.
- FooBarBizBazz 3y agoYeah. Some people just shouldn't hear this startup stuff. They'll bang their head against the wall for decades, driving themselves into desperation, and trying to pull the people around them into the spiral. It's like a relative who borrows to fund a gambling habit, except here they're desperately trying to feed an identity. Inside, incredible grandiosity and low self-esteem are superimposed.
- EdwardDiego 3y agoFrom the link attached to that sentence: > "I first met Peter at Stanford by inviting him to come speak at entrepreneurship events for the club I was president of, the Asia Pacific Entrepreneurship Society," Tan tells Insider.