Why is Y Combinator so defensive lately?

Re:Why is Y Combinator so defensive lately? by cowthulhu on Wednesday September 20, 2023 @08:57PM (#37592007)

If I ever run a successful business, I’m definitely going to have a “no posting about the business on social media” rule to avoid situations like this! I’m not sure who’s in the right or not, but reading through the tweets (almost) everyone involved ends up coming across as somewhat childish, which seems like a total lose-lose.

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Re:Why is Y Combinator so defensive lately? by gochi on Wednesday September 20, 2023 @09:33PM (#37592265)

On one hand, the rule is good, on the other a loss for everyone else who enjoys influential figures demonstrating how petty and childish they are behind the layers of image crafting.

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Re:Why is Y Combinator so defensive lately? by nuclearnice1 on Wednesday September 20, 2023 @09:53PM (#37592378)

Exactly. Almost as much fun as when Garry wanted to take our money to keep him rich: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35118988

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Re:Why is Y Combinator so defensive lately? by evbogue on Wednesday September 20, 2023 @10:50PM (#37592689)

What does this have to do with SVB?

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Re:Why is Y Combinator so defensive lately? by version_five on Thursday September 21, 2023 @06:20AM (#37595633)

His (and others) comments and social media behavior during the SBV thing really opened my eyes.

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Re:Why is Y Combinator so defensive lately? by WisNorCan on Wednesday September 20, 2023 @09:22PM (#37592194)

To be clear these are not random people inside the respective organizations. These are the CEOs of the organizations.

I trust that they had the judgment to decide that they needed to defend their reputation.

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Re:Why is Y Combinator so defensive lately? by dustingetz on Wednesday September 20, 2023 @09:36PM (#37592289)

lol

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Re:Why is Y Combinator so defensive lately? by version_five on Wednesday September 20, 2023 @09:20PM (#37592179)

Right, it seems like with celebrities no press is bad press (with a couple exceptions) and Twitter feuds and drama bring more interest. But doing it on behalf of a company can only look bad.

The obvious example is Musk who regularly makes himself look like an idiot, though I think the kind of whiny defensive posts mentioned in this article look way worse.

Somewhat surprisingly, I think Yan LeCunn does a decent job of posting fairly aggressive tweets but not looking like a whiner, crazy or someone shouting pointlessly into the void.

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Re:Why is Y Combinator so defensive lately? by lnxg33k1 on Wednesday September 20, 2023 @09:05PM (#37592063)

You could hire a Chief Drama Officer

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Re:Why is Y Combinator so defensive lately? by android521 on Wednesday September 20, 2023 @09:57PM (#37592399)

well, Elon Musk who run the must successfully businesses on earth tweets all kinds of $hit and his businesses are going up and up.

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Re:Why is Y Combinator so defensive lately? by thejazzman on Wednesday September 20, 2023 @11:52PM (#37593030)

Twitter has plummeted in value.

I know you're mostly correct but let's not distort reality here.

And there's a lot of evidence these business are excelling DESPITE him. Eg people buying Tesla even though they resent the man.

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