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based on your profile I wouldn't hold my breath...pg tends to back teams that already have hackers.
by vaksel 18y ago
based on your profile I wouldn't hold my breath...pg tends to back teams that already have hackers.
- unalone 18y agoChrist, man, you're one of the most active users here, but you're always so unpleasant. Yeah, most of us will be rejected. No reason to be a jerk about it.
- vaksel 18y agoThere is being a jerk, and then there is being realistic. Yes most people will get rejected, but most of them fit your basic mold. I dunno about you, but I haven't heard of pg backing a single non-techie founder...have you?
- unalone 18y agoI have no clue, to be honest. I don't know half of the YC companies that exist. Realistic is fine, but he's not saying "Do you think I have a chance?", he's saying "When will we hear back?" It's rude to answer a question that hasn't been asked.
- pg 18y agoWe did once fund a pair of founders neither of whom were hackers. One of them had majored in physics in college though.
- ryanwaggoner 18y agoResults?
- unalone 18y agoDoes physics majoring help start-ups? Were they a physics-central startup? Or is it just proof of dedication, similar to how a math major would be?
- pclark 18y agophysics is a pretty common major to lead to internet/tech startups, I know quite a few guys that made that transition.
- pg 18y agoAnyone who understands math will at least get what the issues are in hacking, even if they don't understand random details. They won't panic at the sight of formal notation.
- Major_Grooves 18y agoThe auctomatic guys had studied PPE and Law I think. It wasn't till at or after YC that they merged with a hacker. Or maybe I get the details wrong...
- vlad 18y agoI think you're right, Major. But those two had founded and worked on an eBay clone for students prior to that.
- LWCARAB 18y agoYep this was Kulveer and Harjeet Taggar from Auctomatic, as far as I know they only met up with their hackers (Patrick and John Collison) once at Y Combinator. And Auctomatic was an extremely successful investment, I doubt we've seen the last of those guys.
- swombat 18y agoOh, and Santa doesn't exist.
- unalone 18y agoIf a kid asks "Is there a Santa?" you can tell him "No" and feel not-so-bad. But if he says "When will Santa come?", if your response is "Don't be silly, Santa doesn't exist," then you're being a jerk.
- breck 18y agoYou can't make good predictions based on a HackerNews profile, but let's pretend... >>I am a 36 year old Rochester, NY based entreprenuer. At 25 I founded and bootstrapped a sales & marketing company to $9M in sales, 50 employees and >$2M in personal income. If all we knew about this person was that: 1) They built a ~$10M company and earned more than $2M personally 2) They weren't a hacker versus: 1) Some hacker I would put bet person 1 would be a better investment.
- ryanwaggoner 18y agoSince we're talking about jdileo's profile, here's a question: why apply for something like YC? Yeah, I totally get that YC isn't about the cash. But still, couldn't you buy way more connections and press than the YC companies get? Alternatively, you could take like $500k to Demo Day and sink $100k each into five of the YC companies as an angel. I just don't get why someone who had built that big of a company at 25 would go for YC. What am I missing?
- jdileo 18y agoBeing that you're addressing this question to me, thought I would answer. YC's value extends FAR beyond the minimal dollar amount it gives each startup. If you really don't get that, you simply haven't been paying attention. SAD.
- ryanwaggoner 18y agoWhoa, dude...relax. I know you're on edge waiting for the results, but damn :) If you read my comment above, you'll see where I said: Yeah, I totally get that YC isn't about the cash. My point was that YC is worth far more than the cash it invests. But I still don't get why someone who had built a company worth millions and taken millions out of it would go back to the YC model. YC has always struck me as being more for single college-aged founders with no track record than for older, more established entrepreneurs with plenty of money to fund their future startups.
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- zhyder 18y agojdileo, your profile actually looks interesting, and I'm sure some of us hackers would want to talk to you. Please add your email address to your profile; note that the email field itself is not visible to others.
- jdileo 18y agowill do.