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by exogeny 8y ago
It's amazing to me how few companies get this, and even more amazing that they ever find funding, much less multiple rounds.
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by exogeny 8y ago
It gets a "OH COME ON!" because it's completely irreverent. The actual story here doesn't actually matter. A dog is dead, and there's no recovering from bungling the PR of something that sensitive. Everything in the
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by exogeny 8y ago
I would dispute this, if only using personal experience. The value of my degree from CMU has paid itself back multiple times over in terms of doors opened. Your statement feels like too broad of a brush. In my view, there’s a huge fat tail
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by exogeny 8y ago
For-profit college? Fraud? Surely you jest.
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The Self-Described Jets Owner-In-Waiting Will Tailgate for Now(nytimes.com)
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by exogeny 8y ago
The percentage of links to your blog that you post in your comments is extremely high and extremely notable. Make of that what you will.
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by exogeny 8y ago
Welcome to the exciting world of men's rights activism!
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by exogeny 8y ago
Before this thread gets sidetracked talking about HQ's viability or whatever, let's start with the obvious: my thoughts are with his family and friends in what must be an awful, heartbreaking time. Startups are hard.
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by exogeny 8y ago
I don't know Aaron at all, but I'm curious about what kind of bonafides you must have to be a Partner at YC. Do they mean partner in the financial sense (ie: he bought into it) or in an operational sense? If it's the latter,
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by exogeny 8y ago
“Brentwood Residents Coalition” just screams NIMBY bullshit to me.
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by exogeny 8y ago
Sure, makes sense. Thank you for the reply. Where it's personally frustrating for me: I've sold two companies in my life, and saw my tax rate jump from the lowest to the highest. I'm fine with that. I did well and despite all
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by exogeny 8y ago
I will go to my grave not understanding why this is so complex and difficult for people to understand and politicians to fix. Wages are stagnant, save for a handful of sectors, in which they're growing quickly. Housing prices are risin
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by exogeny 8y ago
I like Fred a lot, and I know it's not his fault, but the sycophantic comments on his posts make me sick.
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by exogeny 8y ago
Absolutely. I think about it in the same way I think about "American Idol": Simon Cowell became a notable figure simply because he was honest with people; he dared to tell people that they were wasting their time pursuing singing.
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by exogeny 8y ago
Exactly. Wake me up when Gary does a video on unit economics. Or cohort analysis. Or CAC/LTV. Or literally anything to do with business other than the idea that regardless of how unfit you are, how unsuitable your idea is, or how damag
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by exogeny 8y ago
There's nothing wrong with hard work. But there is a lot wrong with the idea that you need to work until your health is impacted to succeed; if you need to work that hard, something else is off - the idea isn't good enough, you&#x
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by exogeny 8y ago
This is a pretty short-sighted view, in my opinion. Regulation also means working fire alarms, access for disabled persons, and a whole lot of other things that are far from guaranteed with unscrupulous building owners in a booming housing
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by exogeny 8y ago
What a soft, weak, non-stance of a stance.
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by exogeny 8y ago
I hope at this point you're looking at the replies and realizing that your nihilistic, cynical viewpoint is in a very strong minority. You can take the money, but you can never say that nobody told you there would be repercussions.
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by exogeny 8y ago
GaryV sucks. He really is the worst. Dude was born on third base but pretends like he grew up homeless. His #1 skill is bullshit LinkedIn-style "inspiration" which inspires people who shouldn't be entrepreneurs to make stupid
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by exogeny 8y ago
Just so I'm 100% clear: you believe that being blind, and being unable to read social cues to such an extent that you are considered a sexual harasser for pursuing a relationship are equivalent disabilities? "Stop being such a cre
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by exogeny 8y ago
This is such a bizarre request. What you're basically saying is, because 5% of people don't understand the common norms that are blindingly obvious to everyone, the 95% must go out of their way to explain and accommodate the minor
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by exogeny 8y ago
It is truly scary the number of men in this thread who apparently do not understand what you're saying, as basic and obvious as it is.
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by exogeny 8y ago
Snapchat's global endgame is bankruptcy due to an unending series of terrible product decisions. Everything else is an antecedent to that.
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by exogeny 8y ago
It's analogous to pointing out that the #1 trait that successful founders have in common is family wealth - it causes people to have to look into their own privilege, and it ain't pretty.
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by exogeny 8y ago
I'd be curious to know what YC is doing about these VCs - obviously telling them to go fuck themselves w/r/t demo day and other program access is a start, but what else? This is where YC has a platform to be a part of the sol
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by exogeny 8y ago
Agreed, super anecdotal but I'd be curious to know when your former boss started smoking - in my (also anecdotal!) experience, that is a key determinant to a lot of negative behaviors.
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by exogeny 8y ago
That your response to his personal, non-generalized story is as such in very, very curious and makes me wonder why you're having such a defensive posture.
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by exogeny 8y ago
It depends on how you define "successful". There are an awful lot of startups that are successful solely and completely on their ability to raise money. Every year there are double-digit startups who sell and the employees get not
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by exogeny 8y ago
Hard for me to take it seriously when The Players Tribune is included as an "awesome company", but I digress.

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