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Much of YC’s content and outreach is clearly targeted towards college students and younger generations. There is little to no acknowledgement of those who may have gotten into tech later in life with aspirations to…

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Have been reading a lot of PG’s and Sam Altman’s writings and following the YC classes, and I can’t help but feel as if they’d see someone at my age as not worth an investment, someone who didn’t necessarily have the…

Hi all – For those who've worked with an ADHD coach and found it beneficial, I'd be grateful if you could provide recommendations on who you worked with. Thanks.

Tech Twitter is ablaze with hype around a new crypto app that lets you monetize relationships. Much of the excitement by builders & VCs explicitly hand-waves away the obvious and self-admitted ponzinomics for the sake…

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I don't know if I'm overly sensitive and wholly unfit for the founder journey or have just had a distorted experience thus far, but increasingly it seems there is no "making it" it in this corner of venture without…

As someone who's been in and out of the crypto space for years, recently it has felt increasingly as if this is a technology desperately in search of a UX solution that it may never achieve. The industry is run by a…

It seems as if everywhere I turn, online discourse has devolved into antagonistic, snarky, lowest-common-denominator noise. People have become so deeply entrenched in and have identified with their opinions leaving no…

Over the many years I've been here, I've observed a good number of users being so unnecessarily harsh and critical to users launching new products. The feedback may be valid, but it is often delivered very…

Hit my limit today when I was on a call with a new colleague and found myself rambling in circles unable to put together a clear and coherent thought. This is an issue I’ve long struggled with. Every psychiatrist I have…

Please keep it civil.

With the advent of AI and what seems to be the pervasive exhaustion and malnourishment of engagement in the digital world, it feels as if people are more than ever craving a connection with the physical – whether…

I'm an entrepreneur who cofounded and led product for a startup that was eventually acquired (at a modest price) a few years ago. Since then I've been consulting for and investing in startups. I am now interested in…

Do people want to strap a headset to their face? Do we want to continue isolating people from each other and the world? Why is this modality being pushed so hard?

Anecdotally, I’ve noticed a large uptick in MBA-types who are expressing interest and being admitted into YC. It feels as if YC is becoming yet another prestigious line-item that status-chasers are using to stack their…

What are other signals one can provide to big & emerging tech companies that make up for and possibly exceed the value of having blue chip names on your CV? I'm finding that despite co-founding a startup with a…