Who invited him to your university, and how did they know of him?
There's no contest that his blog was an instrument in his popularity; I am questioning that it was the main one.
There's no contest that his blog was an instrument in his popularity; I am questioning that it was the main one.
He came to give a talk at my university when YC was just getting started, and while I was a junior there, about how we could start a startup, rather than going to big companies and working for others. This was very eye opening and exciting, and it was completely independent of his previous achievements - I had never heard of him before that talk, and I had never heard of his startup.