The first batch of YC founders photo is a bit heartbreaking. Aaron next to Sam next to pg and Jessica on the left. The latter batches benefited from the learnings, but this batch must have been so much more personal.
And seeing Aaron in his entrepreneurial days, still makes me tear up. It makes me wonder what might have been possible if not for the tragic ending.
"Apparently the world is a ridiculous place".
Just observing facts from the picture. I'm getting down-voted, but I don't mean any ill will towards anyone. Perhaps no women or minorities applied to be in the first batch, but then again, that is also an indicator of a social issue - that more women and blacks and hispanics are not engaged in tech.
I just wish that tech entrepreneurship drew a more diverse crowd, as that would bring more diverse and necessary solutions for world problems. Not everything can be fixed from the lens of middle class white and asian men.