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I'd have to give it up for Steve - ruthless and firm! No doubt Apple has done so well. Love the guy! Especially loved the part where he says "asymmetry ... " and "you guys felt otherwise - patents" ... Haha! love the Jobs style!

Employees are mercenaries anyway - I think Steve did the right thing as the founder.

All I meant was PG is pretty vocal about most things related to hackers / company founders etc. With Aaron's sad news being on the front page of HN for the past 3-4 days, i would have thought he had something to say about the issue. I understand he has no obligation ...

At least Linus commented on this very sensitive issue. Not sure why PG has not said anything publicly when he knew and has worked with Aaron during Reddit.

I was hoping to hear from PG on this .... :( nothing yet

Another post on celebrating "I got some moneys" and yay! this time without YC, even though I was in YC.

Guys, get over it. Can some of you please post some inspirational articles on how you created a bootstrapped company?

"You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villan" -- given the contribution wikipedia has made to the world, personally I am ok paying $100/yr to fund their beer.

As for the people editing wikipedia - its similar to facebook users adding their "data" and Mark profiting from it all. Why should this be an exception?

Dude what you need is a break from everything - power off your laptop + mobile + tablet + anything electronic. Take a vacation for a month - .....

I am in a bad depression myself even though I am making good money from my startup but due to other personal reasons. I am planning to go to Bali for a month.

"hustler founders" - every piece of shit which PG says is picked up and abused

An office with "jail rules"

wow! they have A User!!!! :)

"We even call them founders" .... "really only one founder, and that's me" - I think then you are really confusing the difference between "founding employees" and "company founder".

I don't mean to be disrespectful but here is my 2 cents:

1. Limiting applications is a really stupid idea. Imagine if all the bad applications filed early and filled the quota.

2. YC decides what best/right for the selection process. None of us have a right to question that. By submitting our application, we are agreeing to this condition implicitly.

3. I am not sure why you consider "watching the videos" as the only form of due diligence to the application. They may have read your application and might have decided just based on that and might have not felt the need to watch the video.

4. "725k raised ..." - I dunno why many startup founders seem to wear "investments" like a "badge of success". I would have sympathized with you if you had instead written - "725k of revenue and dozens of happy customers". Just because someone decided to invest in you, does not mean everyone else has to or that your idea / startup will succeed.

5. "serial entre.... " - why do you need YC? go get what you are worth.

6. "please review applications in full" -- We all sometimes decide to NOT watch a movie, just based on a short 2 minute trailer. There might be no need to read your application in full - you could not grab their attention with whatever little they read.

As I mentioned, I don't mean to be disrespectful - but the tone of your thread is more accusatory than of one respectfully making a suggestion.

All the best!

I think a business visa would be more appropriate.

Thanks taurussai and brackin - looks like there is hope ;) ! Let me just go ahead and submit the application.

rehack - I am Eklavya but to fight the fight, I need to go to my Kurukshetra! ;)