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Agreed. If you consider his habits of: 1) seeding his former apprentices with funding in exchange for a small amount of equity in their new printing ventures,
by riemannzeta 2y ago
Agreed. If you consider his habits of:
1) seeding his former apprentices with funding in exchange for a small amount of equity in their new printing ventures,
2) forming non-profit organizations to address public needs (such as subscription libraries, fire departments, and street sweepers)
3) forming groups of like minded tradespeople who were interested in improving themselves and their communities through ventures like 1) and 2)
...then one might even say that Benjamin Franklin was a kind of 18th century YCombinator
- akira2501 2y agoDrinking _after_ work instead of before it.
- paledot 2y ago> forming non-profit organizations to address public needs (such as subscription libraries, fire departments, and street sweepers) I'm curious to know when Y Combinator did this.
- waldrews 2y agohttps://www.ycombinator.com/nonprofits/ https://www.ycombinator.com/nonprofits/ - there hasn't been a 'unicorn scale' non-profit to come out of the program yet, but they're trying...