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Not so much rude as irresponsible. The more serious the accusation, the more evidence you ought to have before making it. Other YC-like organizations have don
by pg 18y ago
Not so much rude as irresponsible. The more serious the accusation, the more evidence you ought to have before making it.
Other YC-like organizations have done various moderately dubious things over the years, but there's no evidence any of them have done anything so serious as stealing applicants' ideas.
- noelsequeira 18y agoBut it wasn't an accusation at all. I've written clearly that both venture funds under discussion are too big to bother about a team that goes to another fund. The fact that these companies are similar and graduated at similar times from their respective funds prompted me to think about confidentiality irrespective of what really transpired between them. My stream of thought led me wonder how disclosure to an irresponsible fund (there are hundreds of funds all over the world now and you might have a black sheep - i'm sure you could allow me that assumption) might mean that a startup will have a clone to contend with when it graduates,and felt like sharing my thoughts. I'm not trying to implicate anyone (I could never gather the evidence for it, and even if I managed to, it would be an exercise in futility) and quite obviously none of these companies owe anyone explanations - they're quite wonderful. In fact over the course of compiling the article, I've read a fair bit about them and appreciate the effort each has put in into identifying differentiators and competing with a rival/rivals.
- davidw 18y agoSomeone once wrote that, "in the narrow sense of the word, that startup ideas are worthless". However, we all seem to agree that "stealing" ideas would be sort of a shady thing to do, which indicates they do have some value. I still think that "narrow sense" needs more exposition.