Re:My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga
by tptacek on Sunday November 01, 2015 @05:25PM
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Yes, but I had the same thought; along the lines of "does YC really have to do a dinner where someone comes in and tell the batch's founders not to try to make examples of customers/users that are annoying them, because they will look ridiculous at best and, as in cases like this, actively malignant at worst"? Is that really a lesson YC needs to teach?
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It doesn't need to be a dinner, but a nice blog post would possibly help. It's not as if this is the first boneheaded response from a YC funded company, and it's YC's name that gets linked to this sub-optimal behaviour.
That "break the rules" post got around. Maybe there needs to be a "but don't be a massive jerk to ex customers" follow up post.
Re:My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga
by tedunangst on Sunday November 01, 2015 @06:22PM
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I thought there was already a "no asshole" rule? But maybe it's one of the rules you're supposed to break.
At the very least, I would expect Y Combinator to try to invest in founders who don't need to be told that.
Re:My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga
by tptacek on Monday November 02, 2015 @11:57AM
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People have crazy unrealistic expectations of YC in this regard. They invest in 30-40 teams per batch, based on an application and a very short interview. That's a good thing for founders, and whatever else you might think of them, YC is the probably the most founder-positive force in the entire technology industry.
They're investors, not chaperons.