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Christ, 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.
by unalone 18y ago
Christ, 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.