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YC is so 1999. pg thinks he can replicate his success from before dot.com bubble burst. Really, of the startups hes funded, besides dropbox, who really needs th
by p6 17y ago
YC is so 1999. pg thinks he can replicate his success from before dot.com bubble burst. Really, of the startups hes funded, besides dropbox, who really needs that shit?
- aaronblohowiak 17y agoWhy are you here?
- coffeemug 17y agoAt the very least, YC partners are trying a novel experiment nobody has tried before, and if you're a curious person, it's interesting where it will go. If it succeeds, great! If it fails, at least it's a really interesting thing to try, and it inspired hundreds (thousands?) of people to strive to do great things. I honestly want to know, what compels you to knock smart, energetic people trying new, interesting things? Even if the idea is ridiculous, who could it possibly hurt?
- gizmo 17y ago[devil's advocate] YC could end up hurting all the founders. YC is selling a message that it's OK not to worry about a business model or revenue (or profit!), and that may turn out to be horrendous advice. In this case YC is partly responsible for the creation of a new web 2.0 no-revenue-required bubble. So what you call "knocking smart energetic people" may just be a highly needed reality check, to keep people from dropping out of college and investing their savings and future into doomed ventures. [/devil's advocate]
- p6 17y agoThank you for referring to me as the devil. Thats quite a compliment.
- nitrogen 17y agoThe only thing 1999 about Y Combinator is that the application form is mostly written in HTML 3.2 ;). Also, not everything about the dot com boom was bad. It's just taken us (as a society) this long to filter through the wreckage and start using the good bits again.
- p6 17y agonice way to delude yourself, pg fan boy.