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by garry 11y ago
Amen! No permission slip needed.
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by garry 11y ago
Haha, I love Quora too. Yes, will do my best to help there.
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by garry 11y ago
I am actually stepping away. You can think most clearly when unattached.
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by garry 11y ago
Thankfully what you suspect is wrong here.
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by garry 11y ago
This is a relatively new phenomenon which is also why the YCF program exists now. Time was, you had a team and a demo.
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by garry 11y ago
Dividends and stock buybacks are both ways companies enrich their stock holders. But I view them as largely the same thing. When a company doesn't have new markets, then it doesn't create new products or services, so it literally
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by garry 11y ago
Capital only grows if it can be deployed in new endeavors that generate more revenue (and as a by-product usually increase the amount of labor at work). That's part of the problem. Not enough public companies know what to do with the e
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VOIQ (YC S15) lets companies create on-demand call centers(venturebeat.com)
5 points by garry 11y ago|0 comments
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Presumption of stupidity(aaronkharris.com)
510 points by garry 11y ago|178 comments
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by garry 11y ago
This comment is unfair to PG. There's no way for you to know this, but behind the scenes PG has always been protective of Hacker News and has been aware that HN exists outside of YC and has utility for the community at large. YC founde
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by garry 11y ago
This is the kind of armchair comment that misunderstands how Silicon Valley works. You're right that stock value is disconnected from actual value (or productivity), but it's not right to connote there is no value at all. The firs
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by garry 11y ago
YC has been funding solar startups as well. The partners overall are also interested in this field and any single partner in an interview can fund a startup.
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by garry 11y ago
And they've been saying it for at least 24 months.
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by garry 11y ago
Good call.
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Tenant Turner (YC S15) helps landlords manage their rentals(tenantturner.com)
15 points by garry 11y ago|5 comments
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by garry 11y ago
As a partner at YC for over 10 batches now, I've worked with lots of great founders who have come from all over the country, and many make having families work. The cofounders of MongoHQ both moved to Mountain View with their families
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by garry 11y ago
I was one of the YC partners who interviewed and funded Afrostream. We made the call to fund because we fundamentally believe in this team and market. We accept companies not because they are flawless. No companies are, and none of the star
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by garry 11y ago
This obscures React's main strength, which is making it so that you don't have to worry about edge case states. In complex UI's, this is the #1 source of bugs.
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by garry 11y ago
James and Khaled have been consistently executing. As with most overnight successes, this one is years in the making.
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by garry 11y ago
Never said they were doomed. I agree with you that it all depends.
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by garry 11y ago
Palantir actually uses audit logs to keep better track of how three letter agencies use the data, so that it really does go through the right oversight.
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by garry 11y ago
The latter example happens all the time to good people. Doing a lot of work in most organizations is anti-correlated with success because the only thing that happens is that even more work is pushed your way.
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by garry 11y ago
Examples of do-nothing-ism at large companies— lots of launches of bad products. Huge advertising budgets. Large staffs of ineffectual people. Pointy headed bosses. Where do you think that meme came from? Big companies! Obviously bad startu
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by garry 11y ago
It's a well maintained schlep of a DOM hacking API that makes complex interaction in a hugely important installed base of 1 billion users (previously nearly impossible) possible. Just because you understand the mechanism doesn't m
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by garry 11y ago
You're right about time frame. We live in very different times now though — the vast majority of fast growing companies opt to stay private for far longer, thanks to Sarbanes-Oxley. Those juggernaut public co's you mention went IP
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by garry 11y ago
For a seed funded startup, that's a nontrivially high salary. It's common for Series A companies to pay market, but a little unusual this early in the company's life. Bonus structures are great for cash generating businesses,
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by garry 11y ago
I was employee #10 at Palantir and received and accepted an offer in this ballpark. I'm pretty happy with it at this point. Frankly it was absolutely life changing, both from a learning perspective and a compensation perspective. Of co
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by garry 11y ago
Most professional limited partners typically do a small allocation (only a few percent) to VC overall.
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by garry 11y ago
> In reality, if most of these founders put their money in standard index funds, they would have better returns adjusted for risk, but without all of the publicity that they crave. This demonstrates a lack of understanding of venture re
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by garry 12y ago
Andrew has spent a lot of time and energy compiling this reference. I don't think it is unreasonable for him to get an email address in exchange. We all love free content but we frankly are not entitled to it.

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