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Make-A-Wish Foundation, doing things that don't scale :P
by pshin45 13y ago
Make-A-Wish Foundation, doing things that don't scale :P
- sdoering 13y agoWhy does everything has to scale? Why can a good deed not go unpunished (like in some comments here)? Your comment reminded me of one famous quote from the ring, the yews gave Oskar Schindler[1]: "Whoever saves one life saves the world entire." Some people (ok, a lot of people) just made the miserable life of one little child a lot better. And they made their own lifes better, by showing what can be accomplished together. What is so bad in that, that it warrants these snarky remarks here on HN? That I really do not understand. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oskar_Schindler#After_the_war https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oskar_Schindler#After_the_war
- jaredsohn 13y agoWhy do people make assumptions on the motive behind other peoples' posts :) I don't think the GP is making a value judgement on the fact that Make A Wish often does things that do not scale. Rather I took it as a way to partially describe the Make A Wish organization in the language used to describe startups.
- sdoering 13y agoIf I have misunderstood the OP, I apologize. I know of the 15 to 1 ration of the possibility to misunderstand in every communication. So I should have given him the benefit of the doubt.
- quaunaut 13y agoHe wasn't insulting it, he was referencing a pg post that changed the way a lot of people approach startup marketing/relations: http://paulgraham.com/ds.html http://paulgraham.com/ds.html