George from the CodeCombat team here. It was a crazy experience. Nick and I were leaving the stage, I was thinking "okay, that went okay, hope we get an interview!" When they called us back I thought we had biffed a mic transfer to the next team. When we heard we were in this next batch, I couldn't even believe it. Nick and I managed to keep it relatively cool on stage but we got a little silly back stage. Still can't really believe it, and can't wait to be a part of this cohort.
I can't imagine what it would have felt like for those guys. I'm wondering, was it an interview for the following two as well but they didn't get selected?
Today marks my 1300th day on Hacker News, without ever feeling compelled enough to make a comment. That changes today having just seen the story of Watsi, and the deeply honest, moving talk given by Chase Adam.
Watsi can't fail, you're right Chase. It's impossible. Thank you (and the entire Watsi team) for being such an inspiration.
Balaji Srinivasan lives in the richest, most technological advanced country in the world and he is talking about exit. I am no fan of too much regulation but sometimes it come in to existence for a reason because we live in a society and need some rules in order to function better.
Hilarious how he shows SV eating other places and cites examples of companies who are in existence because of the content created by others (Hollywood, music industry etc).
His use of "exit" was more abstract than physical location, though from his description of the reasons his father left India we see that sometimes you have to do that, too. He mentioned "Hirschmann's Treatise," in passing, which you might find illustrative:
I didn't watch the stream but wait... Qatar and Luxemburg are not the most technologically advanced, but Japan and Finland are not the richest countries. I don't think the country you're talking about exists.
is it just me or does the "Don't have Flash? Try the HTML 5 version." link goes to just another flash player which doesnt work ? Also the "real" flash player plays just some noise now. Again is it just me ?
We've got a twitter list of attendees - direct links to it don't work apparently, but you can find it from my profile https://twitter.com/austenallred (click on lists - startup school 2013).
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11:00 (PST) - Phil Libin (Founder, Evernote)
11:30 (PST) - Dan Siroker (Founder, Optimizely)
12:00 (PST) - Ron Conway (Partner, SV Angel)
12:30 (PST) - Office Hours with Paul Graham & Sam Altman
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02:00 (PST) - Chris Dixon (Partner, Andreessen Horowitz)
02:30 (PST) - Diane Greene (Founder, VMWare)
03:00 (PST) - Balaji Srinivasan (Founder, Counsyl)
03:30 (PST) - Chase Adam (Founder, Watsi)
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04:30 (PST) - Jack Dorsey (Founder, Square)
05:00 (PST) - Mark Zuckerberg (Founder, Facebook)
05:30 (PST) - Nathan Blecharczyk (Founder, AirBnb)
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Watsi can't fail, you're right Chase. It's impossible. Thank you (and the entire Watsi team) for being such an inspiration.
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clicks. Is this some sort of joke? It opens a new page with another Flash player.
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Hilarious how he shows SV eating other places and cites examples of companies who are in existence because of the content created by others (Hollywood, music industry etc).
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exit,_Voice,_and_Loyalty
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Ping me if you'd like to be added.
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