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Hi folks, Good to be here! To the Chicago-based commenters: if there's anything I can do to be helpful before I leave, email me at andrew@ycombinator.com. I'm

by andrew 13y ago

Hi folks, Good to be here! To the Chicago-based commenters: if there's anything I can do to be helpful before I leave, email me at andrew@ycombinator.com. I'm happy to hang out and give "advice" if you'll make the haul up to Evanston and help me assemble a ping pong table or cat habitrail or whatever my loser project of the week is. Whoever said Chicago's challenge is one of talent network effects, I agree (although it depends on the nature of your company - Chicago is great for Groupon). I'd love to help solve it, but not enough to endure the handicap. Building a company is hard enough as is. And if you're really intent on self-inflicted pain for your startup, there are far more interesting ways to do it. The album is real. Looking forward to more 50% off jokes! Can't wait! Andrew

caublestone 13y ago
I really enjoyed your talk last summer at pioneer way. Really excited to see you join the YC team and look forward to talking with you more in the future.
clobber 13y ago
Please stay far away from the startup scene. You're toxic. Edit: since the downvotes from assumed sycophants are pouring in, I'm not afraid to defend my position: the story of the Groupon pump and dump is well-known here and criticism has always been widely upvoted. But once the man is right here in our midsts you retreat. This is essentially the same behavior we see over and over of society promoting the psychopath. Others might have short memories but I don't.
- dopamean 13y ago
  Come on man. Is this necessary?
  - clobber 13y ago
    Yes, absolutely.
- wikiburner 13y ago
  Please stay far away from HN. You're toxic. - clobber - created: 726 days ago karma: 558 avg: 4.63 C'mon, you should know better.
  - clobber 13y ago
    Because I'm not playing the role of sycophant here? I'll leave that to the others. This Groupon thing is well-known and I'd say what I said to anyone else from Lightbank.
- mirsadm 13y ago
  Your response wasn't really constructive. A lot of people may agree with your comment but now that Andrew is at YC it'd be more useful to get his side of the story and learn something from it.
  - clobber 13y ago
    What side of the story? I'm not interested in hearing twisting of the facts. Everyone knows what happened.
kvee 13y ago
user: andrew created: 2278 days ago karma: 15 Andrew, why is this your first comment or post?
- wikiburner 13y ago
  I think maybe he asked PG to wipe his previous comments or something. He had a series of Ask HN's and other comments from way back when he was just starting The Point, asking for advice on various things. Unfortunately, his posts didn't get much of a response at the time, but it was actually really inspiring to read after the fact and see him facing a lot of the same startup issues other HNers post about every day.
  - kvee 13y ago
    ah, you're right, but it's a different account: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=678949 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=678949
skrebbel 13y ago
> Looking forward to more 50% off jokes! Can't wait! You could collect and bundle them, and release them as your autobiography.

by andrew 13y ago

caublestone 13y ago

I really enjoyed your talk last summer at pioneer way. Really excited to see you join the YC team and look forward to talking with you more in the future.

clobber 13y ago

Please stay far away from the startup scene. You're toxic. Edit: since the downvotes from assumed sycophants are pouring in, I'm not afraid to defend my position: the story of the Groupon pump and dump is well-known here and criticism has always been widely upvoted. But once the man is right here in our midsts you retreat. This is essentially the same behavior we see over and over of society promoting the psychopath. Others might have short memories but I don't.

dopamean 13y ago
Come on man. Is this necessary?
- clobber 13y ago
  Yes, absolutely.
wikiburner 13y ago
Please stay far away from HN. You're toxic. - clobber - created: 726 days ago karma: 558 avg: 4.63 C'mon, you should know better.
- clobber 13y ago
  Because I'm not playing the role of sycophant here? I'll leave that to the others. This Groupon thing is well-known and I'd say what I said to anyone else from Lightbank.
mirsadm 13y ago
Your response wasn't really constructive. A lot of people may agree with your comment but now that Andrew is at YC it'd be more useful to get his side of the story and learn something from it.
- clobber 13y ago
  What side of the story? I'm not interested in hearing twisting of the facts. Everyone knows what happened.

kvee 13y ago

user: andrew created: 2278 days ago karma: 15 Andrew, why is this your first comment or post?

wikiburner 13y ago
I think maybe he asked PG to wipe his previous comments or something. He had a series of Ask HN's and other comments from way back when he was just starting The Point, asking for advice on various things. Unfortunately, his posts didn't get much of a response at the time, but it was actually really inspiring to read after the fact and see him facing a lot of the same startup issues other HNers post about every day.
- kvee 13y ago
  ah, you're right, but it's a different account: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=678949 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=678949

skrebbel 13y ago

> Looking forward to more 50% off jokes! Can't wait! You could collect and bundle them, and release them as your autobiography.