mattkrisiloff

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by mattkrisiloff 6y ago
I used to work alongside Adora at YC and she works super hard for the startups she is working with and is very helpful — totally justified for her to be there.
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by mattkrisiloff 6y ago
Doubt my comment will get to you with so many commenters and it's a bit off topic, but are you familiar with savesightnow.org? They are a patient advocacy group specifically for Usher's Syndrome working on finding a cure...good pe
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by mattkrisiloff 8y ago
he resigned https://theintercept.com/2018/10/11/some-silicon-valley-supe...
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Hiring for Basic Income(blog.ycombinator.com)
83 points by mattkrisiloff 10y ago|126 comments
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Affordable Care(blog.samaltman.com)
720 points by mattkrisiloff 10y ago|1014 comments
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by mattkrisiloff 10y ago
This is cool! I like that it's lighter weight to change settings than w/ Self Control (which I'm also a fan of). It'd be cool if there was a setting that stopped letting you visit a site after you've been there X ti
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by mattkrisiloff 10y ago
fwiw we've funded Iron Ox ( http://ironox.com/ ) -- they're basically farmers
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by mattkrisiloff 10y ago
well fwiw, I'm a staff member, wouldn't consider myself rich, and that culture is what keeps me wanting to work there--I'd be pretty bored if it was more like a traditional VC firm.
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by mattkrisiloff 10y ago
Hi! I work on the study -- just want to affirm sub-thread clarification that this 1 year portion is a pilot to figure out logistics (not planning to answer research questions), and we hope to follow on with a 5 year study to actually answer
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by mattkrisiloff 10y ago
Glad to hear! If you or people you know might have any feedback, please feel free to reach out at basicincome@ycr.org
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by mattkrisiloff 10y ago
We're certainly not trying to answer everything with this one study--we hope it will be an important piece, but it's going to take a number of studies, a number of different approaches to know if BI really could or could not work.
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by mattkrisiloff 10y ago
We're not sure how we're going to pick the participants yet, though we do know it will be a random selection process, in-line with randomized control trial principles. If you know anyone from Oakland that has feedback though, fee
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by mattkrisiloff 10y ago
I think it's important to some degree to be agnostic about what we mean by 'basic income'. We're planning to test the version coloquially closest to 'universal basic income', but something along negative income
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by mattkrisiloff 10y ago
In terms of data sets / analysis, we plan to be totally open and make them available.
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by mattkrisiloff 10y ago
We're going to have a control group for the pilot that doesn't receive an income, and following base-line behavior is something we'll consider doing for the main study.
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by mattkrisiloff 10y ago
And pilot we're thinking 6 months to a year -- though still to be determined / could change.
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by mattkrisiloff 10y ago
That's correct -- it's really not our goal though to try and answer the main research questions with the pilot; it's meant to help us figure out the mechanics of doing the larger study.
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Gigster sharing equity with their freelancers(medium.com)
2 points by mattkrisiloff 10y ago|0 comments
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by mattkrisiloff 11y ago
Yep, they are different things.
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by mattkrisiloff 11y ago
Yep.
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by mattkrisiloff 11y ago
Yes-- even regardless of whether or not you are invited for an S16interview, you can still apply again this way.
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by mattkrisiloff 11y ago
Yep -- 6 companies from F1 went directly into YC W16, and a few others have raised seed rounds independently. Nowadays, Fellowship ends with a virtual Demo Day for investors; the first one for that will be happening next week, so it's
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by mattkrisiloff 11y ago
Hey! I work on Fellowship -- definitely would encourage you to stay where you are if accepted; office hours are done over video chat, so you wouldn't be at a disadvantage.
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by mattkrisiloff 11y ago
It's possible the negative income tax experiments results were more complicated than thought -- especially with how the results were portrayed: http://www.widerquist.com/karl/Articles--scholarly/Failure2c...
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by mattkrisiloff 11y ago
Small update: if you're interested in applying for the research position, please submit by end of day, February 15th.
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by mattkrisiloff 11y ago
The researcher we choose will be fully a part of YCR / YC. He or she will be able to bounce ideas off us at any point, and we will help out however is requested.
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by mattkrisiloff 11y ago
It's too early to say -- we're obviously not experts ourselves on this kind of research, so we're going to look to the researcher who joins us to first design the study.
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by mattkrisiloff 11y ago
It's a big reason we want to do it for 5 years -- things may look different in the longer term.
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Request For Research: Basic Income(blog.ycombinator.com)
1876 points by mattkrisiloff 11y ago|1121 comments
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by mattkrisiloff 11y ago
Teams have to incorporate, though they don't have to be incorporated yet to apply. There are a couple instances with F2 where we've allowed international teams to keep their pre-existing co structure, but it's still strongly

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