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"They have to have a different angle on this; they're a YC company." Why do you think they would have a different angle if they are a YC company?
by kvnn 14y ago
"They have to have a different angle on this; they're a YC company."
Why do you think they would have a different angle if they are a YC company?
- Tyrannosaurs 14y agoI don't think there's an implication that a YC company would be more moral, just that they'd be doing something a little more interesting or subtle than the same old crap sleaze balls have been pulling for years now. It's like finding that someone has got through the YC selection process based on a business model which involves putting "sex, horny, porn" in the title of each page on their website.
- swies 14y agohttp://www.paulgraham.com/good.html http://www.paulgraham.com/good.html
- prodigal_erik 14y agoThat rings kind of hollow after Blecharczyk ("among the nicest of all the people we've funded") was outed as an unrepentant habitual spammer. YC is demonstrably not immune to scumbags, which is not to say that other angels and VCs do better.
- JoachimSchipper 14y ago(For those who'd have to look it up: this refers to AirBnb.)
- brudgers 14y agoFrom PG's article: "Microsoft isn't so benevolent now. Now when one thinks of what Microsoft does to users, all the verbs that come to mind begin with F." This is why it's easy to cast YC's funding of a crapware company as a deliberate choice.
- wtracy 14y agoPresumably it's hard to get into YC without a "different angle".
- kvnn 14y ago"Its about the team, not the idea".