I followed YC from the time it was just a glimmer in pg’s eye (http://www.paulgraham.com/start.html). By the time I went through YC myself, in the Winter 2008, I felt like I was already late to the game. Eventually I realized W08 was still early, early days. (For example, the weekly dinners were generally cooked by pg himself. Also, the benches would see-saw up if someone on the wrong side left their seat—I’m sure some of you fellow old-timers now recall that idiosyncrasy with a strange sense of fondness.)
Congratulations to Y Combinator on 17 amazing years. Here’s to many more years to come!
"Yes, yes, repression, anti-gay prejudice, I know all right-thinking people are supposed to be horrified by such things – but...” -Erik S Raymond
You owe me $100. Please PayPal it expeditiously to don@donhopkins.com.
And if that 10-year-old hateful ESR quote I already provided you with isn't enough for your upwardly mobile goalposts, then here are a couple more recent, even more explicitly vile, hateful, racist, and demeaning ESR quotes. And there are lots more where those came from.
“Unfortunately, this doesn’t cover the BLM crowd, which would have an average IQ of about 85 if it’s statically representative of American blacks as a whole. I’ve never tried to train anyone that dim and wouldn’t want to.” -Erik S Raymond
"In the U.S., blacks are 12% of the population but commit 50% of violent crimes; can anyone honestly think this is unconnected to the fact that they average 15 points of IQ lower than the general population? That stupid people are more violent is a fact independent of skin color." -Eric S Raymond
Did you really mean to carry Eric S Raymond's water so enthusiastically with such aplomb? You're the one who foolishly decided to publicly bet your own money that he couldn't keep his hateful racist mouth shut, and you spectacularly lost that bet, so please pay up.
Thomas Ptacek raised over $30,000 for charity from people who wanted him to stop posting vile ESR quotes to twitter, so consider yourself getting off dirt cheap for only $100 to make me stop posting ESR's own words, after you asked for it.
Congratulations to Y Combinator on 17 amazing years. Here’s to many more years to come!