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by snowmaker 7y ago
Good question - it is not obvious. Y Combinator has one president, Geoff Ralston, who is the president of YC Group, the parent organization. It has two CEO's: Michael Seibel, who is the CEO of YC Core, the twice-a-year program YC start
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by snowmaker 7y ago
That's a smart argument, but I think what it's missing is that the cost of gasoline is much higher than the cost of its energy equivalent on the electricity market. I.e, the cost of 1 Joule of energy != the cost of 1 joule of gas
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by snowmaker 7y ago
It depends on the alternative state of the universe. If the alternative state of the universe is you never drove the car, then you're right, this is not clearly better. If the alternative state of the universe is you drove the same ca
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by snowmaker 7y ago
This blog post is excellent. Thanks for re-sharing! I plan to send this to companies considering SBIR grants in the future.
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by snowmaker 7y ago
One way to split the difference on this issue is to type out your question in a separate text editor ahead of time and store it on your clipboard. That way, when your coworker responds to your "hello", you can immediately reply w
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by snowmaker 8y ago
This is off-topic for the Atomic Alchemy post, and I don't want to distract from that, but I'll just briefly answer your question about YC. Roughly half of the companies that join YC are new companies that are just getting started
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by snowmaker 8y ago
https://www.ycombinator.com/deal/ We do get pro rata rights, but we don't care about the option pool.
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by snowmaker 8y ago
I love this idea. I've always wanted a way to play Quidditch, and short of someone building a Quidditch court into an orbiting space station, couldn't think of how you would do it. This is the answer!
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by snowmaker 8y ago
That's a good idea. I just emailed them.
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by snowmaker 8y ago
Absolutely. I work for YC. An artificial kidney would transform the lives of millions of people on dialysis. It's worth trying to build one even if the chance of success is only 1%.
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by snowmaker 8y ago
If you want to start it and apply to YC, we'd be very interested.
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by snowmaker 8y ago
Agreed. We had to rush this page out for a Google-driven deadline. I've just fixed the formatting like you suggested.
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by snowmaker 8y ago
Good point - I'll filter those out.
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by snowmaker 8y ago
Unfortunately we can't open the video stream to the public because many of the companies share confidential information that they don't want to be publicly accessible (in particular, visible to their competitors). If you want to s
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by snowmaker 8y ago
It actually did. It surprised us too! We can track this directly so there's no uncertainty over the result. We're not entirely sure why it worked so well, though.
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by snowmaker 8y ago
That's a great question. We don't look at a single success rate; we look at a wide variety of success rate metrics. It's important to point out (thanks @ferrelty) that there are many forms of success itself. A company that
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by snowmaker 8y ago
I do think that's possible, and that is one of the confounding factors we spend a lot of time worrying about and trying to control for when we do the data science on this. One of the ways we do this is by licensing data about all the
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by snowmaker 8y ago
While a pure YC ETF doesn't exist, there are several YC demo day funds that approximate it. Both FundersClub and AngelList run funds you can invest in every batch that invest in many of the YC companies.
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by snowmaker 8y ago
Hi, I work at YC. I think this article is a bit misleading, so I wanted to take the opportunity to give you some of the data. I'm happy to answer any questions on this topic. 1) YC's acceptance rate for applications has remaine
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by snowmaker 8y ago
Thank you! That was all https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mattlong
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by snowmaker 8y ago
Yep! I did an internship at a startup after my senior year of high school - it was awesome.
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by snowmaker 8y ago
What's your current situation? While exceptions exist, internships are usually designed for full-time students who are supposed to go back to school in the fall. If you don't have a hard commitment like that, companies would ty
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Intern at a YC Company(blog.ycombinator.com)
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by snowmaker 8y ago
That's not necessarily a deal-breaker. We often work within constraints like that - it depends on the details of your team.
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by snowmaker 8y ago
Yes, for the three months of the YC program.
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by snowmaker 8y ago
You would think so, but the market is dysfunctional because of the regulatory complexity of the US healthcare system: https://health.usnews.com/health-care/for-better/articles/20...
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by snowmaker 8y ago
Not a hard limit.
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by snowmaker 8y ago
I'm very sorry that happened to you. 90 day exercise windows remain a huge issue in the industry, and one we've been fighting to fix for years now. Fortunately, the fix is very simple: companies should just offer 10 year exercise
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by snowmaker 8y ago
Not currently but hopefully later this year!
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by snowmaker 8y ago
Some visas, depends on the details. Email me with your visa situation and I'll let you know if we can help.

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