bank account. tech startups have huge balances compared to lifetime
I was in YC >5 years ago when batches were in person and in the large-two-digit range. The experience of YC is completely different. The class sizes are in the hundreds and many times I've spoken to founders who didn't…
You can, but when you're making that much above what a series A or B company pays, it's not a useful number. Having multiple offers that are comparable is what matters. A company can go ±5% but it's not like they offer…
> I also talked to a few fintech companies. I entered the discussions with pre-existing biases that these places are stressfull, not innovative but well paying. The conversations confirmed these biases (except the…
I agree. We tried using TripleByte for hiring but what they screen for and what matters are entirely different. A founder we knew got an angry missive from one of the TripleByte founders because they’d rejected…
I have had this exact experience with Triplebyte both as an engineer and as a hiring manager. I simply do not care about things like, “what does malloc return”. I do not care what people know about bloom filters in…
Not to mention the preceding paragraph: > When I started at Stripe, I asked to delay my start date until after a family vacation, but my manager just told me to start sooner and take time off later (Stripe was just shy…
His reply is after hours upon hours of getting torn apart for doubling, tripling, twenty-times-ing down on his power trip. And he still believes that some ethical line was crossed.
What IP was stolen? The idea of running code from a web editor? The _button placement_? There’s nothing here that says he’s stolen code or any IP. The CEO doesn’t even claim that he’s stolen real IP. Everything that’s…
had the same experience with Aileen. Many VCs, founders, and DNI leaders have echoed that All Raise is primarily a way for VCs to improve their personal brand around women in tech. They don't make investments, don't run…
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23280811
All over this thread you are responding about the details not being public. The existence of the job search itself is the issue. I'm not sure what's not getting through about that.
Opt-In doesn't help them achieve their product goals. Triplebyte as founded isn't working so they're trying to take a valuable asset they have (engineers looking for jobs) to compete with linkedin The problem with…
I tried "find hot local singles in your area" and the top result was /r/vinyls actually very impressed
As a VC, marketing is part of the job. Perhaps the most important part of the job. Getting LPs to invest in your fund encourages strong personal brand building. Getting startups to want _you_ to invest versus others—and…
In that case will you add to your data policy that user data is destroyed in the event of a transfer of ownership? If your promise is genuine then there is no difference for you in doing so.
would be good to hear what they plan on doing instead. YC China was a bet at doing something different. With that gone—and idk if it should have stayed or gone.. sometimes experiments fail—what is YCs plan? Invite 200,…
It’s interesting to watch the disconnect between the outwardly liberal/left side of Silicon Valley and its complicity in these things. Take one example, Garry Tan was an early member of Palantir but went on to be a…
Maybe I'm misunderstanding your target customer. Are you only focused on enterprise? The pricing comes across as something like "forced obsolescence." Forced handicapping? You might not have meant it that way but many…
my dude why're you talking in latin this ain't pompeii
Same experience with the Tic Tac Toe, then again with the rest of the interview. There were a lot of Googlable boilerplate questions (e.g. "what does malloc return?", "what's a bloom filter?") that, as a product…
I don't think the comment you're pointing to is saying that she should have done more, but that others in the company should have; that to expect her to have done more is lacking in empathy for the difficulty of the…
I think this differs from the election in that we, Silicon Valley, have tacitly assumed that "things are different here", that 2017 San Francisco is different than 2017 Louisiana. That may be the case, but we still have…
If I'd seen this in a horror movie 10 years ago, I'd probably have laughed. There is something about it being real that truly terrifies me.
Great article. Even if startup equity is a gamble, everyone should benefit equally if it pays off. Who's going to invest the energy to build something world-changing if they can't trust that their ownership means…
bank account. tech startups have huge balances compared to lifetime
I was in YC >5 years ago when batches were in person and in the large-two-digit range. The experience of YC is completely different. The class sizes are in the hundreds and many times I've spoken to founders who didn't…
You can, but when you're making that much above what a series A or B company pays, it's not a useful number. Having multiple offers that are comparable is what matters. A company can go ±5% but it's not like they offer…
> I also talked to a few fintech companies. I entered the discussions with pre-existing biases that these places are stressfull, not innovative but well paying. The conversations confirmed these biases (except the…
I agree. We tried using TripleByte for hiring but what they screen for and what matters are entirely different. A founder we knew got an angry missive from one of the TripleByte founders because they’d rejected…
I have had this exact experience with Triplebyte both as an engineer and as a hiring manager. I simply do not care about things like, “what does malloc return”. I do not care what people know about bloom filters in…
Not to mention the preceding paragraph: > When I started at Stripe, I asked to delay my start date until after a family vacation, but my manager just told me to start sooner and take time off later (Stripe was just shy…
His reply is after hours upon hours of getting torn apart for doubling, tripling, twenty-times-ing down on his power trip. And he still believes that some ethical line was crossed.
What IP was stolen? The idea of running code from a web editor? The _button placement_? There’s nothing here that says he’s stolen code or any IP. The CEO doesn’t even claim that he’s stolen real IP. Everything that’s…
had the same experience with Aileen. Many VCs, founders, and DNI leaders have echoed that All Raise is primarily a way for VCs to improve their personal brand around women in tech. They don't make investments, don't run…
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23280811
All over this thread you are responding about the details not being public. The existence of the job search itself is the issue. I'm not sure what's not getting through about that.
Opt-In doesn't help them achieve their product goals. Triplebyte as founded isn't working so they're trying to take a valuable asset they have (engineers looking for jobs) to compete with linkedin The problem with…
I tried "find hot local singles in your area" and the top result was /r/vinyls actually very impressed
As a VC, marketing is part of the job. Perhaps the most important part of the job. Getting LPs to invest in your fund encourages strong personal brand building. Getting startups to want _you_ to invest versus others—and…
In that case will you add to your data policy that user data is destroyed in the event of a transfer of ownership? If your promise is genuine then there is no difference for you in doing so.
would be good to hear what they plan on doing instead. YC China was a bet at doing something different. With that gone—and idk if it should have stayed or gone.. sometimes experiments fail—what is YCs plan? Invite 200,…
It’s interesting to watch the disconnect between the outwardly liberal/left side of Silicon Valley and its complicity in these things. Take one example, Garry Tan was an early member of Palantir but went on to be a…
Maybe I'm misunderstanding your target customer. Are you only focused on enterprise? The pricing comes across as something like "forced obsolescence." Forced handicapping? You might not have meant it that way but many…
my dude why're you talking in latin this ain't pompeii
Same experience with the Tic Tac Toe, then again with the rest of the interview. There were a lot of Googlable boilerplate questions (e.g. "what does malloc return?", "what's a bloom filter?") that, as a product…
I don't think the comment you're pointing to is saying that she should have done more, but that others in the company should have; that to expect her to have done more is lacking in empathy for the difficulty of the…
I think this differs from the election in that we, Silicon Valley, have tacitly assumed that "things are different here", that 2017 San Francisco is different than 2017 Louisiana. That may be the case, but we still have…
If I'd seen this in a horror movie 10 years ago, I'd probably have laughed. There is something about it being real that truly terrifies me.
Great article. Even if startup equity is a gamble, everyone should benefit equally if it pays off. Who's going to invest the energy to build something world-changing if they can't trust that their ownership means…