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Re:Paul Graham is too arrogant by Harj on Tuesday May 15, 2007 @04:41PM (#22337)
What I find most amusing about this is guy is how he so passionately bashes Y Combinator on his blog, Techcrunch and probably any other form of medium he can get his hands on. Each time he argues how YC is worthless and irrelevant. The problem being that if YC is so irrelevant and pointless - why spend so much of your time and energy writing about it? I know my general approach to things I think are a waste of time is putting them to the side and spending my time on the things that are in my opinion. Since I value my time as a scarce resource I think that's a justified approach.

The logical assumption then is either:

1) "Livingfirstlife" doesn't actually consider YC to be so pointless as presumably if he genuinely believed that to be true, he wouldn't be so generous as to provide a stream of free PR.

2) He doesn't value his time particularly highly, in which case he's not exactly the type of person I'll be asking for startup advice anytime soon.

Perhaps one day he'll learn that childish tantrums aren't the most effective method for convincing people your point of view is correct.

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Re:Paul Graham is too arrogant by angelasimpson on Wednesday May 16, 2007 @01:38AM (#22450)
Harj I'm a little confused. If you're someone that YC has invested in, why do you have so much spare time to argue with this guy? His tantrums aren't very childish and I think you're showing your lack of maturity by not presenting any general arguments. You clearly aren't valuing your time very highly either - you're just being hypocritical.
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Re:Paul Graham is too arrogant by Harj on Wednesday May 16, 2007 @02:05AM (#22454)
I've posted one techcrunch comment and one comment here disagreeing with him. That's a combined total of about 10 minutes of my time which in my view is justified use of it, as it was time spent defending an organization that has done nothing but provide me with a stream of endless opportunity.

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