[clpmsf]

It's truly hard to believe that Michael Seibel wasn't appointed as CEO, and equally hard to believe that Garry Tan was.

[appplication]

I don’t know anything about either of these people or the nuance of their professional qualifications, and I think that probably also holds true for 99% of other people who will see your comment.

A bit more context might be helpful.

[reducesuffering]

"For an institution that had historically promoted from within, first with Sam Altman, now CEO of OpenAI, then Ralston, the Tan era came as a shock. Within YC, many staff had wanted Michael Seibel, the cofounder of Twitch and YC’s longtime batch leader, to get the job. Multiple sources remembered longtime partner Dalton Caldwell vocalizing what others were feeling, too: we’re all just employees who work here, message received. Seibel, meanwhile, wrote a letter to YC’s board to explain his disappointment at being passed over, despite broad internal support. He vowed to support Tan moving forward, anyway. Caldwell and Seibel declined to comment on those incidents through a YC spokesperson."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2024/03/08/inside-ga...

https://archive.is/a4Tno#selection-615.0-623.266

[hnthrow01]

PG has thrown his weight behind boosting questionable builders (50% supportive tweets were about Austen Allred's Lambda School and Suhail's Mighty). Now Tan, who is throwing tantrums on Twitter ("die slow motherfucker"), while passing on someone like Seibel?

I suppose all of them were still sadly supportive of the SVB bailout, "government cronyism for me, capitalism for thee". So much for any illusion of libertarian ethos.

If Garry Tan stays long as YC CEO, I'm betting we have a mutiny and a fork form. It looks like Seibel isn't going to do all the work of leading the batch while Tan reaps the larger share of rewards.

[gurchik]

Wasn't he the CEO in the past? I see him referred to as "CEO" in some places, like [1], but I can't find any announcement or news article about when this changed.

1: https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/16/yc-ceo-michael-seibel-open...

[jejeyyy77]

what has Michael Seibel done?

[ryandamm]

Twitch?

[fuzztester]

Why is truly hard to believe a fact, or two?

Last I heard, facts don't have to be believed; they just exist.

[zaphirplane]

It’s an expression