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I mean trying to insinuate oai is a yc company is just shady right? I get that the subtext isn’t dishonest, but cmon, you know what you’re doing

tptacek 9mo ago
They were an early funder. Seems p. reasonable for a VC firm to point that out.
- nailer 9mo ago
  Were OpenAI in a batch though? If not, I think maybe OpenAI deserves a mention but after companies that were actually in a batch. Typography looks great though, animations are smooth, /formidable founder' is original and it's nice seeing Jared Friedman - he was super friendly and acted as a company champion when I applied in 2016.
  - tptacek 9mo ago
    I don't think a "fair" ranking of companies with a nexus to YC is really the goal of the page. YC invested in OpenAI; their logo goes on the page. Also, hard to argue that the founders of OpenAI lacked YC credentials. :)
    - nailer 9mo ago
      ‘Nexus’ is vague. The page is specifically asking founders to participate in YC’s program and showing founders that participated in YC’s program. Altman’s company Loopt failed - Altman went on to work on OpenAI and YC Research allegedly pledged money: we get it, but that’s not the typical YC founder experience, and it wasn’t Sam’s experience with Loopt. In addition YC Research didn’t send their pledged funds to OpenAI: https://archive.ph/20230518211335/https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/17/elon-musk-used-to-say-he-put-100m-in-openai-but-now-its-50m-here-are-the-receipts/ https://archive.ph/20230518211335/https://techcrunch.com/202... > According to federal tax filings, at least one of the named donors, YC Research, never gave a single dollar
bflesch 9mo ago
It's fine they include openai, they can be very proud of sam. What I found a bit weird is that the reddit founder picture shows only two people. History is written by the winners I guess.

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I mean trying to insinuate oai is a yc company is just shady right? I get that the subtext isn’t dishonest, but cmon, you know what you’re doing

by ripped_britches 9mo ago

tptacek 9mo ago
They were an early funder. Seems p. reasonable for a VC firm to point that out.
- nailer 9mo ago
  Were OpenAI in a batch though? If not, I think maybe OpenAI deserves a mention but after companies that were actually in a batch. Typography looks great though, animations are smooth, /formidable founder' is original and it's nice seeing Jared Friedman - he was super friendly and acted as a company champion when I applied in 2016.
  - tptacek 9mo ago
    I don't think a "fair" ranking of companies with a nexus to YC is really the goal of the page. YC invested in OpenAI; their logo goes on the page. Also, hard to argue that the founders of OpenAI lacked YC credentials. :)
    - nailer 9mo ago
      ‘Nexus’ is vague. The page is specifically asking founders to participate in YC’s program and showing founders that participated in YC’s program. Altman’s company Loopt failed - Altman went on to work on OpenAI and YC Research allegedly pledged money: we get it, but that’s not the typical YC founder experience, and it wasn’t Sam’s experience with Loopt. In addition YC Research didn’t send their pledged funds to OpenAI: https://archive.ph/20230518211335/https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/17/elon-musk-used-to-say-he-put-100m-in-openai-but-now-its-50m-here-are-the-receipts/ https://archive.ph/20230518211335/https://techcrunch.com/202... > According to federal tax filings, at least one of the named donors, YC Research, never gave a single dollar
bflesch 9mo ago
It's fine they include openai, they can be very proud of sam. What I found a bit weird is that the reddit founder picture shows only two people. History is written by the winners I guess.