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Your irony detector needs adjustment. As pg wrote in his introduction to this letter, "I sent the YC partners an email saying I was growing increasingly impres
by tokenadult 14y ago
Your irony detector needs adjustment. As pg wrote in his introduction to this letter,
"I sent the YC partners an email saying I was growing increasingly impressed with one of the startups in the current batch and asking what they thought of them, and Harj Taggar replied with this brilliant piece of VC boilerplate."
The joke is on the people who think that Taggar was expressing what he thinks, rather than what he has heard too many venture capitalists say when they aren't willing to say what they think.
- Tzunamitom 14y agoThen the irony is as delicious as a Hacker News T-shirt ;-)
- fgdsfgds 14y agoWhat is ironic about a Hacker News T-shirt?
- praptak 14y agoNothing in GPs post is dependent on the thing being serious. This kind of language is unfortunately real (cringe), regardless of this particular piece of business poetry.
- geebee 14y agoIronically, you'd miss the overall irony if your irony detector was sensitive enough to erroneously detect irony in the use of the word "brilliant".