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Re:Bolt founder on Stripe/YC by dang on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @12:20AM (#30068412)
My comment wasn't about hundreds of investors -- it was strictly about Y Combinator, which is just one company. I've worked for YC for years and therefore know things about it. Since I don't work on the investment side of the business, there are a lot of details I miss out on, but on the macro level, such as the core patterns by which YC operates, I know quite a bit. Also, part of my job is to be a liaison between HN and YC, and an important part of that is to correct inaccuracies and misperceptions where possible.
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Re:Bolt founder on Stripe/YC by choppaface on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @01:28AM (#30068821)
But this poster is also a HN "moderator" and has a very biased perspective in this conversation. Moderators are in place to ensure fairness, to act as a referee and prevent spam. It's PR that does the sort of "correct inaccuracies and misperceptions where possible" stuff of effectively using outsized leverage to control the narrative. It's PR that tries to deny that beliefs that are deemed "incorrect."

I'm sure that line between PR and "forum mod" can get blurred over the years, but that's exactly the OP's point. The YC community, as it has scaled, is no unbiased marketplace, and it has not handling scaling responsibly. Look at the founders who were ousted from bookface, or even some of the non-public discussions there. The OP's Stripe commentary might be over the top, but YC has yet to produce a mature response to any of these friction points.

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Re:Bolt founder on Stripe/YC by Permit on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @01:41AM (#30068888)
> The OP's Stripe commentary might be over the top, but YC has yet to produce a mature response to any of these friction points.

How could they produce the mature response you’re looking for when the accusations are full of holes. Lyft isn’t a YC company and didn’t use Stripe initially as he claims. The only “Proof” (his words) posted is incorrect: Stripe posted their blog post before he posted his.

He has produced no real evidence for his claims. The evidence he has tried to produce is trivial to check and works against his claims.

How should YC respond to this?

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