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YC has exactly shown there is a recipe. And that goes back before they were popular - the very first class in fact. After all this time of YC doing things, why
by robg 12y ago
YC has exactly shown there is a recipe. And that goes back before they were popular - the very first class in fact.
After all this time of YC doing things, why don't you have have actual criticism, instead of ad hominem. So why troll?
- bdcravens 12y agoRead my response: I think the point is that a recipe implies perfect ingredients + perfect preparation = predictable results, which is far from true. You can follow the recipe to the letter and still fail. You can't judge a recipe by successes, but by its repeatability (I don't care about someone else's feast when I'm trying to make MY meal based on the recipe they followed)
- dlss 12y agoLecture one starts with Sam saying ``idea * execution * luck == results and the luck term is a random number between 0 and 10,000`` Deterministic recipes don't exist anywhere outside the hard sciences (and even there it's not really deterministic -- chemical synthesis and experimental physics have an art to them) Stochastic recipes on the other hand do exist. I think YC's recipe is quite good. Thiel's is cooler though :p