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Quora (2017)(blog.samaltman.com)
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by capocannoniere 5y ago
> Frankly, I'm kinda surprised if an obvious optimization like that isn't already in place - let those who care about the shape pay more for the pretty ones, and let those who don't save by buying the rest. Oh but that&#x2
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by capocannoniere 6y ago
In your parent comment you mention: > not much of the strategy content applies to hardware companies While it's probably a good idea to not blindly follow every single piece of advice (by YC or anyone), saying that not much of th
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Sergey Brin's Home Page (1999)(infolab.stanford.edu)
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by capocannoniere 6y ago
While Airbnb is clearly going through a rough patch right now, there is a clear bull-case argument for why Airbnb will emerge stronger than it's ever been after this: - Airbnb has sufficient cash in the bank to survive the crisis. - A
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LeCun and Bengio: Self-supervised learning is the key to human-level AI(venturebeat.com)
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by capocannoniere 6y ago
Replit sounds awesome, especially once you put it this way ("view-> source for code, plus a server"). Kudos to the team.
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by capocannoniere 6y ago
PG tweet for context: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1256526589300441093 > I wrote this yesterday as an example for my kids. > A lot of people learned how to make web pages using view->source. Replit is
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Stanford Professor: Data Indicates We’re Severely Overreacting to Coronavirus(dailywire.com)
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Yishan Wong: Free, Widespread Testing Is the Only Way the US Goes Back to Normal(medium.com)
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by capocannoniere 7y ago
This is exceptionally well-written. And it looks like YC's design has stepped up quite a notch too :) Quick question: how to reconcile these two almost-conflicting views: 1) Raising money is the CEO’s job. If you are the CEO, you shoul
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by capocannoniere 7y ago
While I personally find Asana clunky and slow (I've used many tools for project management: Notion and Jira are by far what I personally enjoy the most, followed by Airtable at a distant 3rd), Sam Altman's perspective on Asana are
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Is Facebook Dead to Gen Z?(medium.com)
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Why To Be Optimistic About the Future [video](youtube.com)
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Ask HN: Book recommendations with “bite-sized”, modular chapters?
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by capocannoniere 7y ago
I'd argue the outcome of this will be that Facebook will launch their own payments infrastructure on top of WhatsApp. There was no need for crypto or a Libra association to begin with. According to the leaked Facebook all-hands audio,
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by capocannoniere 7y ago
While I don't know about Zenefits in particular, keep in mind that YC companies can opt out of this list: > One thing to note is that this is not an exhaustive list of the top YC companies. We allowed alumni to opt out of being list
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Ask HN: Tools of the Trade, 2019 Edition
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Amazon to open grocery chain separate from Whole Foods(techcrunch.com)
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by capocannoniere 8y ago
Erik Torenberg's Village Global [1] was started fairly recently and is already extremely highly regarded in the start-up community. Much more so than Techstars or any other non-YC accelerator in my impression. [1] https://ww
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2019 Frontier Markets(dcgross.com)
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by capocannoniere 8y ago
Paul Graham wrote an essay on this topic, aimed towards high-school students. His advice: stay upwind http://www.paulgraham.com/hs.html > Instead of working back from a goal, work forward from promising situations. This
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YC selects China mentors, includes Pinduoduo CEO(technode.com)
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Is (useful) physics over?(nintil.com)
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Web of Stories: Don Knuth(webofstories.com)
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by capocannoniere 8y ago
Tagger News might be what you're looking for: https://www.taggernews.com/ It was a TC Disrupt hackathon project that generates tags using AI, and seems to still be functional.
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by capocannoniere 8y ago
Here's another fun one: The _average_ Y Combinator company is worth ~100M [1] The _median_ Y Combinator company, however, is worth closer to $0 (the majority of YC companies don't get to a Series A). This just highlights how count
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by capocannoniere 8y ago
Yes. (1) is pretty close to being true. Will be true with Uber's $120B valuation (2) is already true according to the list. Stripe and Instacart alone are already worth > $27B in aggregate (3) might actually be already true, or at l
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by capocannoniere 8y ago
> edit: There's another possibility here, which is that there are two curves that may have maximized for companies around that time period. The first is the batch size, which has increased from ~10 companies to ~100 over the years.
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by capocannoniere 8y ago
Interesting to note: > In addition, we will continue to support the company in the priced equity round in which the safe converts, and subsequent financing rounds (priced equity rounds or bridge financing rounds) by participating in thos

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