Y Combinator's Chief Startup Whisperer Is Demoting Himself

Re:Y Combinator's Chief Startup Whisperer Is Demoting Himself by JCM9 on Saturday March 16, 2024 @02:01PM (#39728016)

I find the “demoting” term amusing / inaccurate. He’s in a career position to do basically whatever he wants and is doing just that. That seems like the ultimate role / achievement that’s far higher than any position on an org chart. Like a startup founder that realizes being CEO isn’t all it’s cracked up to be and they just want to go back to building, which is what they truly enjoy in life. Congrats and more power to you.

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Re:Y Combinator's Chief Startup Whisperer Is Demoting Himself by sytelus on Saturday March 16, 2024 @08:28PM (#39730725)

Exactly. These people are centi-millionaires and beyond employment, promotions, bonuses and all that usual drudgery. I guess the article is funded purely not to injure egos. But, hey, what is all that downscaling of YC? The article is clearly official press release and paid for.

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Re:Y Combinator's Chief Startup Whisperer Is Demoting Himself by PhasmaFelis on Saturday March 16, 2024 @10:43PM (#39731473)

> These people are centi-millionaires

They have $10,000?

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Re:Y Combinator's Chief Startup Whisperer Is Demoting Himself by lstamour on Saturday March 16, 2024 @10:51PM (#39731509)

The dictionary suggests this means they have $100 million. Likewise centibillionaire means $100 billion.

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Re:Y Combinator's Chief Startup Whisperer Is Demoting Himself by chillingeffect on Saturday March 16, 2024 @11:20PM (#39731646)

What dictionary is that? Im American and even here we learned hecto means 100 in 1st grade.

Centi means 1/100th. (1) e.g. centifoot = 1/100th of a foot.

(1) https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/centi

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Re:Y Combinator's Chief Startup Whisperer Is Demoting Himself by lolinder on Sunday March 17, 2024 @12:18AM (#39731902)

Hecto- is the Greek root for 100, centi- is the Latin root for 100.

The metric prefixes up to 1000 use Greek roots for the large prefixes (10^+n) and Latin for the small (10^-n), but there are also words that are derived directly from the respective Latin roots and therefore don't necessarily carry the metric system's fractional meaning.

Someone already linked to the definition of centimillionaire, but here are a few more:

* centipede (100 legs, not 1/100 of a leg)

* centenarian (100 years old, not 1/100 of a year old)

* millennium (1000 years, not 1/1000 of a year)

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Re:Y Combinator's Chief Startup Whisperer Is Demoting Himself by cshimmin on Saturday March 16, 2024 @11:31PM (#39731705)

centifoot... You had centimeter right there! "Americans will do anything to avoid using the metric system" lol

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Re:Y Combinator's Chief Startup Whisperer Is Demoting Himself by eredengrin on Saturday March 16, 2024 @11:57PM (#39731815)

Yeah would've made way more sense. Either that or centigrade.

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Re:Y Combinator's Chief Startup Whisperer Is Demoting Himself by runlaszlorun on Sunday March 17, 2024 @12:47AM (#39732002)

centipounds?

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Re:Y Combinator's Chief Startup Whisperer Is Demoting Himself by smcnally on Sunday March 17, 2024 @01:56AM (#39732244)

“American Football is a game of centiyards, not feet.” — Official Hand-egg rulebook

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Re:Y Combinator's Chief Startup Whisperer Is Demoting Himself by brianfitz on Saturday March 16, 2024 @11:33PM (#39731717)

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/centimillionaire

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Re:Y Combinator's Chief Startup Whisperer Is Demoting Himself by HPsquared on Sunday March 17, 2024 @12:16AM (#39731890)

Reminds me of how financial newspapers often use a small "m" when describing millions of something. "$500m", or even worse "500m USD"... The engineer in me says that's 50 cents!

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Re:Y Combinator's Chief Startup Whisperer Is Demoting Himself by chillingeffect on Sunday March 17, 2024 @04:10PM (#39737605)

In-depth discussion in this topic:

https://xona.com/2006/12/17.html

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Re:Y Combinator's Chief Startup Whisperer Is Demoting Himself by a_gnostic on Sunday March 17, 2024 @01:12AM (#39732095)

Centiliter = 0.01L

Hectoliter = 100 L

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Re:Y Combinator's Chief Startup Whisperer Is Demoting Himself by DirkH on Sunday March 17, 2024 @01:29AM (#39732143)

You: logic

The English language: "allow me to introduce myself!"

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Re:Y Combinator's Chief Startup Whisperer Is Demoting Himself by Nevermark on Sunday March 17, 2024 @01:36AM (#39732174)

Centennial = 100 years

Centurion = Commander of 100 legionaries

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Re:Y Combinator's Chief Startup Whisperer Is Demoting Himself by lolinder on Sunday March 17, 2024 @01:21AM (#39732124)

Centipede = 100 legs

Etymology is more complicated than "look up the prefix in the metric system tables", and OP is correct about the definition of centimillionaire.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/centimillionaire

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Re:Y Combinator's Chief Startup Whisperer Is Demoting Himself by a_gnostic on Sunday March 17, 2024 @04:08AM (#39732761)

Centipede is Entomology

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Re:Y Combinator's Chief Startup Whisperer Is Demoting Himself by rglynn on Tuesday March 19, 2024 @09:50AM (#39755728)

Brilliant, I laughed out loud

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Re:Y Combinator's Chief Startup Whisperer Is Demoting Himself by PhasmaFelis on Monday March 18, 2024 @09:26AM (#39744148)

I know it is a word people use, and "centi-" is ambiguous without no context, but it's extremely unambiguous in the context of units of measure, and the word "hundred-millionaire" already existed and had the same number of syllables, so it's a really awkward choice.

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Re:Y Combinator's Chief Startup Whisperer Is Demoting Himself by Fomite on Saturday March 16, 2024 @11:54PM (#39731806)

"I'm demoting myself to Chief Do Whatever I Please Officer" hits a little different than most demotions.

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Re:Y Combinator's Chief Startup Whisperer Is Demoting Himself by arthurcolle on Sunday March 17, 2024 @01:04AM (#39732057)

yeah, looking at this from this lens makes it much more of a no-op

I wish I could do the same lmao

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