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Because he's the former president of YC. One of the powerful people you'd be pissing of by doing this is Sam Altman.

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Sai_|2 years ago

Don’t think the former CEO of GitHub is going to be that alarmed about upsetting Sam Altman. You may be seeing their decision making through the lens of a no-name founder applying to YC for their first cheque.

Obscurity4340|2 years ago

Can he like...hack my HN account aha? That would be the extent of my concern or fear of him

fakedang|2 years ago

Well he could have you shadowbanned on every platform except Onlyfans and Pornhub.

dheera|2 years ago

I'd be more worried that all your employees don't want you there, and you'll be in for a lot of cold shoulder meetings every day. Doesn't sound like fun.

The "powerful" people outside, matter a lot less. No matter what you do, if you're influential, about half the powerful will hate you and half will love you.

Obscurity4340|2 years ago

Its like Mr. Burns relying on the competing diseases to bottleneck his death

Obscurity4340|2 years ago

What does YC have to do with OpenAI?

stillwithit|2 years ago

Appeal to hallucinated authority

ShamelessC|2 years ago

Sam Altman was President of YC and CEO of OpenAI.