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"... Agreed on all counts. Never heard of him until the news he was fired from MS, read his goodbye blog post that was pretty Microsoft-friendly, and threw up i

"... Agreed on all counts. Never heard of him until the news he was fired from MS, read his goodbye blog post that was pretty Microsoft-friendly, and threw up in my mouth a little when I saw this new one. ..." Which means you probably didn't look very hard. "... The companies were much higher quality than I expected. The founders were nearly all coders and hackers but did a surprisingly good job at presenting their idea, target market, and business model ..." ~ Don Dodge Don was around YC around 2 years ago and while initially thinking the YC model was a joke, he changed his mind by observing. That's what you want isn't it? People think one thing, but change their minds after observing. Fluid thinking instead of fixed mindsets. ~ http://searchyc.com/don+dodge+bootload http://searchyc.com/don+dodge+bootload

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>Which means you probably didn't look very hard. Because I've only seen these two blog posts? I'm not sufficiently interested in Don Dodge to spend time researching him; and even if I were, a lifetime of washing oil off baby seals wouldn't change the issues I have with his blog post. >Don was around YC around 2 years ago and while initially thinking the YC model was a joke, he changed his mind by observing. That's what you want isn't it? People think one thing, but change their minds after observing. Fluid thinking instead of fixed mindsets. You can't honestly think that this blog post is the result of a reasonable change of mind after gaining new information. It's a complete and utter reversal of his stances on publicly available products he'd already used.