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by garry 7y ago
Did you get offered 1% of Apple? I mean, getting offered equity at the start of a thing is what I was trying to talk about.
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by garry 7y ago
Well this is why it's important to work on something that you believe in. I think there is a fatalism to think all small companies are going to fail. Individual employees should use their own judgment when thinking about whether a star
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by garry 7y ago
This is a misconception. The YC application is actually a great leveler because applications are evaluated by other founders through a community where building things for people is prized over pure credentialism. VCs in general do have a te
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by garry 7y ago
Strange to see people defend the fake parts of startups. You are right that I can’t speak for the broader YC community but the wrong attitudes that are an epidemic in the startup community are the things that don’t help anyone. When startup
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by garry 7y ago
Making something for other people is the highest value prized within the YC founder community. We actually mock people who are scenesters who do it for the fame/social status, and we mock the scammers who build nothing real and get fak
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by garry 7y ago
Hacker News is how I first heard about Y Combinator in 2007. I applied in 2008 and got in. I became a founder. It changed my life. I learned a lot and got to build software for a lot of people. I later became a partner and saw how powerful
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by garry 7y ago
YC changed my life, and changed the lives of hundreds of founders I know personally.
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YC Interview Tips from a Former YC Partner [video](youtube.com)
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by garry 7y ago
Looks like it’s that final possibility. Yikes!
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by garry 7y ago
Geoff is a role model for me as an investor. He taught me you can be smart, pragmatic while also kind, patient, and thoughtful - he's the definition of growth mindset in startupland and I am over the moon that he is taking over. Really
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by garry 8y ago
Actually Triplebyte has been getting jobs for good hackers without credentials. That’s the opposite of what you are thinking: tech bros are from central casting and have high powered CS degrees. Many Triplebyte alums have no degree or no fo
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by garry 8y ago
I got to know Nathan 10 years ago when he was working at my YC batchmate's startup Backtype. He created Apache Storm previously, and now with Red Planet Labs, he's made something incredibly elegant - when I saw it, it was clear to
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by garry 8y ago
Hi, lead investor in this round here. Instacart is actually also an Initialized portfolio company and I funded Apoorva while I was a partner at Y Combinator. We think these technologies are both very complementary — either way, retailers ne
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by garry 8y ago
Hi, I'm the lead investor in this round for Standard Cognition. From what we can tell, Amazon has actually over-invested in sensor technology that results in expensive reconfiguration of shelves and stores. It works for Amazon since th
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by garry 8y ago
This is extremely valuable feedback and worth strongly considering. When the iPhone came out, it didn't support apps - just built-in features like Mail and Mobile Safari. I agree with you that an app store for Helm could be valuable.
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by garry 8y ago
Well the point is that if you trust a cloud provider, you don't own your email because Google owns it too. They have it all, in plaintext.
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by garry 8y ago
The design actually allows for server stacking when you need more compute or storage. It does fully passive cooling with no fan.
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by garry 8y ago
The device talks to an AWS EC2 proxy IP that Helm makes sure isn't on an IP blacklist. All traffic that goes through that is TLS encrypted using Lets Encrypt keys.
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by garry 8y ago
If you want to truly control your data, you've got to control your hardware too. See: Lavabit.
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by garry 8y ago
Stolen? The data is secure - keys are stored in secure enclave, and storage is encrypted. Down? There's continuity of service if you have a 2nd box online, and it's as easy to restore from a live backup as an iPhone from iCloud. E
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by garry 8y ago
Oh that's the actual legal name of the company that created Helm.
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by garry 8y ago
It matters as long as Helm as a company is not compromised. This is true of Apple devices too, and when pushed, they stood up.
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by garry 8y ago
If I have a Helm device and you have a Helm device, and we both use iPhones, that's a pretty good scenario. All the devices are trusted and run signed audited code, and my email passes from my iPhone to yours purely encrypted at every
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by garry 8y ago
Helm was built specifically for you. I know because I had to run dozens of mail servers myself for email-to-blog platform Posterous, my startup 10 years ago. It was terrible. I've been up and running with Helm for the past month on my
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by garry 8y ago
An upcoming release should have continuity of service with a 2nd box, which is not a perfect solution I realize.
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by garry 8y ago
I'm easy to find on the internet. me@garrytan.com
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by garry 8y ago
This is a valuable and useful criticism and we're going to talk about this at our next board meeting. How do you know who to trust? You surely have to trust someone. It feels generally true that we can trust Apple since we pay them fo
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by garry 8y ago
One key principle for Helm is that you always hold your encryption keys to all your data— Helm and outside parties should never get access to that. So the backups are encrypted, and the Helm device itself stores your data in an encrypted fa
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by garry 8y ago
I agree with you absolutely here. Yes, literally Helm does this: encrypted automatic backups.
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by garry 8y ago
I believe multiple devices are in the roadmap... I know because I ordered a 2nd one for my office so I would have self-backup and instant recovery.

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