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by garry 8y ago
Developers and devops folks can certainly do this, I know I have had to do that before for my production data. Part of the point (and the impressive software that has been built here) is that backups happen transparently, and if anything ev
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by garry 8y ago
Because with Helm only you hold the encryption keys.
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by garry 8y ago
I've been running my email on Helm for the past month with no dropouts of service - it's worked with no issues this whole time, and we use Comcast in SF, so it's not the best upstream there is.
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by garry 8y ago
I'm the first and biggest investor in Helm and I'm on the board. I created email-based Posterous previously (YC funded) and was a YC partner for 5 years. I funded this team because they're high integrity software engineers fi
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by garry 8y ago
Actually I am an engineer, as is Vince and Brett in our partnership. Brett and I implemented much of the software that runs YC today including the application process and the internal social network.
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How Justin and Daniel Kan’s mom brought them up to build 2B dollar startups(businessinsider.com)
16 points by garry 8y ago|1 comments
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by garry 9y ago
I found out about Y Combinator through HN in 2007. The big thing I learned from PG's essays and the links on HN were that I could start a company myself, and that there were lots of smart people like me who had done it and were going t
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by garry 9y ago
Startups certainly die because their shoelaces are untied, which is what getting tripped up on financial accounting is like. But you don’t see champion marathoners going to shoelace-tying workshops with the hope it will help them win races.
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by garry 9y ago
I was that YC partner. The beer was very good. 21st Amendment Stout.
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How to Use Your Alexa to Water Your Plants or Even Feed Your Cat(medium.com)
3 points by garry 9y ago|0 comments
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by garry 9y ago
Fun fact: Veblen died on Sand Hill Road.
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by garry 10y ago
Software costs money — great software makes your life easier and lets you do things by clicking checkboxes instead of spending half your week in server config. Half a week of an engineer (or founder) working on a thing is on the order of th
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by garry 10y ago
This lets you do smart obvious things like route /blog on your home domain to your blog provider. There's a lot of stuff you can do that makes your website better and faster using a smart load balancer and so this is kind of an ob
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by garry 10y ago
Individual investors are impatient and so only large institutions with a track record of being long term investors are the ones who get access to top quality VC funds. Because of the power law those are the only ones that make money. So you
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by garry 10y ago
People do this because they want to earn equity and build a business from scratch. That's how wealth is built from nothing in a capitalist society. The situation is that YC helps engineers and designers and product people build somethi
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by garry 10y ago
We started with very similar plans for the business, but as you get farther along in the war, the fog of war engulfs you and in the middle of running the startup can result in two very smart people with different views of the battlefield.
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by garry 10y ago
The product we made caught lightning in a bottle because of the joint choices Sachin and I made together. It is impossible to know if the product would have come together without the talents of both of us. I would frankly guess not. I think
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Co-founder Conflict(techcrunch.com)
366 points by garry 10y ago|57 comments
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by garry 10y ago
I wrote it. It was needed because YC had funded larger batches and the hardest part of a community is knowing who is in it and who you can trust and ask for help.
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by garry 10y ago
You are willfully ignorant of the founders who are out there trying to make things. Have you even met a YC founder before?
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by garry 10y ago
PG may have become an investor and most newcomers may have forgotten this but before YC he was himself a hacker who started a company and became successful. Now years later, after having started a company through YC and then becoming a YC p
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by garry 10y ago
The article itself is written by a general partner at Tandem. It is pretty unusual in the business to have that kind of agenda frankly. Seed investing is the least zero sum stage in finance that I can think of. When founders win, seed inves
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by garry 10y ago
Agree completely Leo. Growth rates are a snapshot and no replacement for understanding the market, founders, and product. Further, after having worked with 700 startups at YC, it is obvious to me now that if you can't grow from small n
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by garry 10y ago
My experience working with 700 startups is the opposite. Founders who lead with an essay will systematically fail because they don't face reality. Founders who lead with numbers are far more likely to actually know what's happenin
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Public Policy Implications of AI(medium.com)
84 points by garry 10y ago|19 comments
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Flexport CEO: The corporation is a relic of the military era(initialized.com)
3 points by garry 10y ago|0 comments
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by garry 10y ago
They literally get 10 minutes, and partners have 5 minutes after to decide. Typical day is about 18 to 22 interviews back to back for 9 hours or so, with a break for lunch.
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by garry 10y ago
Yep email in my profile.
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by garry 10y ago
The ironic thing is that the YC test is mainly about trying to find something valuable.
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by garry 10y ago
I would argue YC is very pragmatic about the criteria it uses to fund people. If this were an every-increasing spiral of BS to get into YC, then you'd be right. Being plain spoken is basically the opposite of BS. In the post I do note

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