How I Crashed and Burned in Y Combinator

Re:How I Crashed and Burned in Y Combinator by guynamedloren on Saturday January 10, 2015 @03:04PM (#8867732)

Not sure why the author didn't consider a fourth option when graduating from college:

    4) Join the ground floor of a startup *as an early employee*

It would've yielded invaluable experience and a whole lot of personal growth, leaving him in a much better place to run a company years down the road.

At this point, I don't really think he's learned anything at all, and he won't learn much about running a company while he's galavanting around southeast asia humblebragging.

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Re:How I Crashed and Burned in Y Combinator by gravedave on Saturday January 10, 2015 @04:29PM (#8868001)

I agree with this, but I don't think it even has to be a startup. Big enterprises may also provide good learning environments, possibly even with experienced developers/marketers/whatevers as mentors, as opposed to a startup's possibly few young, inexperienced recent grads, hellbent on revolutionizing The Way You Think About Shoe Storage with their product called Shoely™ or whatever. Big companies also pay consistently.

I don't know though, the guy seems quite dishonest to me, more interested in means rather than ends, yet still claiming that he "never wanted to start a company simply for the sake of starting a company". To me, he never seemed to question whether he even had anything to give in the first place and address this issue first, if needed, but simply expected to run a successful startup fresh out of college.

Not sure I'd call his closing statements to be humblebragging though, it seems to be just a passing thing for him.

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