"The reason I chose today to drop out was because of a conversation I had with pg last week. He said bluntly that Octopart's chances of getting funding were worse if I stayed in grad school."
Classic. Top story the day I started, "I Dropped Out of Grad School Today" @sam (octopart) [0],[1]
[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20070221033032/http://news.ycomb...
[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20070223035643/http://octopart.c...