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Re:Y Combinator only considers IVY League applicants? by staunch on Monday March 26, 2007 @04:34AM (#6330)
One of the best programmers I've ever met dropped out of high school (I believe he eventually got a GED). Now he's Director (but never stopped programming) of an entire department with a handful of CS PhDs under him.

Do you do background checks for criminal history or education? Are there any fixed requirements like this?

(Sorry for not asking all of this in my first post)

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Re:Y Combinator only considers IVY League applicants? by pg on Monday March 26, 2007 @01:08PM (#6387)
If we didn't allow people with criminal records, we would have had to exclude one of our own partners.
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Re:Y Combinator only considers IVY League applicants? by danielha on Monday March 26, 2007 @01:16PM (#6390)
I'm starting to feel that the elusive, intangible rtm is but a legendary myth, like the griffin or the free lunch.
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