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Re:Peter Thiel, YC, and hard decisions by bruceb on Monday October 17, 2016 @05:01PM (#12729712)
YC gets what 4k applications? You think founders are not going to apply to YC because of who Thiel gives money to?

Seems unlikely.

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Re:Peter Thiel, YC, and hard decisions by ryandamm on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @03:35AM (#12732741)
All it takes is the next Google to decide not to apply, or to turn down their acceptance, to bend the return curve.

Check your priors.

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Re:Peter Thiel, YC, and hard decisions by dredmorbius on Monday October 17, 2016 @05:51PM (#12730122)
People are known to take principled stands.

Which is what this conversation's about.

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Re:Peter Thiel, YC, and hard decisions by bruceb on Monday October 17, 2016 @06:20PM (#12730334)
People do take stands but my reply was to:

> This in turn chills applications from startups working on problems not relating to white western males.

With the crush of applicants now I doubt more than a very few applicants are not going to apply because Thiel is on the board.

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Re:Peter Thiel, YC, and hard decisions by morgante on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @08:28AM (#12733740)
I'd reconsider applying to YC based on this and would definitely not accept money from Thiel himself.
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