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Re:Ask PG: When will YC selectees be notified? by unalone on Monday April 06, 2009 @05:12PM (#549645)
Christ, man, you're one of the most active users here, but you're always so unpleasant.

Yeah, most of us will be rejected. No reason to be a jerk about it.

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Re:Ask PG: When will YC selectees be notified? by swombat on Monday April 06, 2009 @05:17PM (#549661)
Oh, and Santa doesn't exist.
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Re:Ask PG: When will YC selectees be notified? by unalone on Monday April 06, 2009 @05:19PM (#549665)
If a kid asks "Is there a Santa?" you can tell him "No" and feel not-so-bad. But if he says "When will Santa come?", if your response is "Don't be silly, Santa doesn't exist," then you're being a jerk.
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Re:Ask PG: When will YC selectees be notified? by swombat on Monday April 06, 2009 @05:21PM (#549670)
Don't be silly, YCombinator doesn't exist.
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Re:Ask PG: When will YC selectees be notified? by unalone on Monday April 06, 2009 @05:22PM (#549674)
:O
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Re:Ask PG: When will YC selectees be notified? by swombat on Monday April 06, 2009 @05:24PM (#549680)
Good luck, btw!
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Re:Ask PG: When will YC selectees be notified? by vaksel on Monday April 06, 2009 @05:16PM (#549656)
There is being a jerk, and then there is being realistic. Yes most people will get rejected, but most of them fit your basic mold. I dunno about you, but I haven't heard of pg backing a single non-techie founder...have you?
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Re:Ask PG: When will YC selectees be notified? by unalone on Monday April 06, 2009 @05:17PM (#549660)
I have no clue, to be honest. I don't know half of the YC companies that exist.

Realistic is fine, but he's not saying "Do you think I have a chance?", he's saying "When will we hear back?" It's rude to answer a question that hasn't been asked.

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Re:Ask PG: When will YC selectees be notified? by pg on Monday April 06, 2009 @05:33PM (#549704)
We did once fund a pair of founders neither of whom were hackers. One of them had majored in physics in college though.
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Re:Ask PG: When will YC selectees be notified? by Major_Grooves on Monday April 06, 2009 @06:02PM (#549757)
The auctomatic guys had studied PPE and Law I think. It wasn't till at or after YC that they merged with a hacker. Or maybe I get the details wrong...
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Re:Ask PG: When will YC selectees be notified? by vlad on Monday April 06, 2009 @06:18PM (#549784)
I think you're right, Major. But those two had founded and worked on an eBay clone for students prior to that.
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Re:Ask PG: When will YC selectees be notified? by unalone on Monday April 06, 2009 @05:39PM (#549715)
Does physics majoring help start-ups? Were they a physics-central startup? Or is it just proof of dedication, similar to how a math major would be?
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Re:Ask PG: When will YC selectees be notified? by pg on Monday April 06, 2009 @06:51PM (#549835)
Anyone who understands math will at least get what the issues are in hacking, even if they don't understand random details. They won't panic at the sight of formal notation.
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Re:Ask PG: When will YC selectees be notified? by pclark on Monday April 06, 2009 @05:45PM (#549728)
physics is a pretty common major to lead to internet/tech startups, I know quite a few guys that made that transition.
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Re:Ask PG: When will YC selectees be notified? by ryanwaggoner on Monday April 06, 2009 @05:37PM (#549711)
Results?
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Re:Ask PG: When will YC selectees be notified? by lisper on Monday April 06, 2009 @05:53PM (#549743)
I believe he's talking about Octopart. They were doing well the last time I checked.
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Re:Ask PG: When will YC selectees be notified? by pg on Monday April 06, 2009 @06:44PM (#549822)
No, Auctomatic. The Octoparts were physics grad students, but they could hack.
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Re:Ask PG: When will YC selectees be notified? by lisper on Wednesday April 08, 2009 @03:53AM (#552434)
Auctopart, Octomatic, who can keep these things straight?

;-)

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Re:Ask PG: When will YC selectees be notified? by LWCARAB on Monday April 06, 2009 @06:19PM (#549787)
Yep this was Kulveer and Harjeet Taggar from Auctomatic, as far as I know they only met up with their hackers (Patrick and John Collison) once at Y Combinator. And Auctomatic was an extremely successful investment, I doubt we've seen the last of those guys.
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