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The more we see the legacy of PG’s various protégés and “thought leadership” out in the world the more I start to think Jessica Livingston might have been respo
by CPLX 3y ago
The more we see the legacy of PG’s various protégés and “thought leadership” out in the world the more I start to think Jessica Livingston might have been responsible for much more of YC’s successful trajectory than people realized at the time.
- robocat 3y agoPG writes about her influence here, and why she avoids the spotlight: https://www.paulgraham.com/jessica.html https://www.paulgraham.com/jessica.html He also seems to give some credit to Jessica for choosing to back the Reddit founders: we thought that we were funding ideas rather than founders, we rejected them. But we felt bad about it. Jessica was sad that we'd rejected [them]. Edit: she gets mentioned here too: https://www.paulgraham.com/ycstart.html https://www.paulgraham.com/ycstart.html
- uhohspaghetti 3y agoCandidly, that was pretty clear even decades ago when this was an obscure little place. PG, for example, didn’t realize that discriminating against people who have children might not be great until he himself had kids. He’s a mid dude with gross feet who came up with a wildly profitable business model (6% equity in as many promising founders as possible).
- leosanchez 3y ago> He’s a mid dude with gross feet Does he sell feet pics :) ?
- uhohspaghetti 3y ago[dead]