We'll Be Circling Back

Re:We'll Be Circling Back by tokenadult on Wednesday March 13, 2013 @03:36PM (#5370606)

Your irony detector needs adjustment. As pg wrote in his introduction to this letter,

"I sent the YC partners an email saying I was growing increasingly impressed with one of the startups in the current batch and asking what they thought of them, and Harj Taggar replied with this brilliant piece of VC boilerplate."

The joke is on the people who think that Taggar was expressing what he thinks, rather than what he has heard too many venture capitalists say when they aren't willing to say what they think.

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Re:We'll Be Circling Back by praptak on Wednesday March 13, 2013 @03:45PM (#5370679)

Nothing in GPs post is dependent on the thing being serious. This kind of language is unfortunately real (cringe), regardless of this particular piece of business poetry.

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Re:We'll Be Circling Back by Tzunamitom on Wednesday March 13, 2013 @03:39PM (#5370628)

Then the irony is as delicious as a Hacker News T-shirt ;-)

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Re:We'll Be Circling Back by fgdsfgds on Wednesday March 13, 2013 @05:37PM (#5371287)

What is ironic about a Hacker News T-shirt?

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Re:We'll Be Circling Back by geebee on Wednesday March 13, 2013 @06:30PM (#5371561)

Ironically, you'd miss the overall irony if your irony detector was sensitive enough to erroneously detect irony in the use of the word "brilliant".

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