Tell HN: Winners of Apply HN for YC Fellowship 3

Re:Tell HN: Winners of Apply HN for YC Fellowship 3 by borski on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @10:45PM (#11633653)

This is exactly what strikes me as odd about the whole thing. 'dang has made an impressive effort to keep everything on HN as transparent as possible, and this explanation just screamed inconsistency.

Were the real reason, as stated here, published the first time, I wouldn't even have bothered to comment.

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Re:Tell HN: Winners of Apply HN for YC Fellowship 3 by tptacek on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @10:49PM (#11633677)

And, YC, you can be inconsistent. That's fine with me.

But when you're inconsistent, you should bear a special obligation to be generous and charitable to the people you're disadvantaging. YC didn't live up to that obligation here.

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Re:Tell HN: Winners of Apply HN for YC Fellowship 3 by license2e on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @11:05PM (#11633754)

Sounds to me like they were generous, with their time. Kevin called him and they had a conversation... that's more than any other VC will do.

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Re:Tell HN: Winners of Apply HN for YC Fellowship 3 by tptacek on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @11:26PM (#11633835)

"Asshole VC associate" is not the bar YC is trying to clear.

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