Hi, my name is not convexer and this is my garbage site. I created this site
because I wanted a place where I could be my full & terrible self without
worrying too hard about making a positive impression.
Topics of interest include personal shit, gender politics, regular politics,
and the modern workplace. I don’t really proofread my posts, so let me know if
I say anything that’s just wrong.
“If I have peed farther, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.”
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Y Combinator
Man, startup culture and startup accelerators like Y Combinator are such a joke.
Everyone I’ve talked to who worked for a startup has openly admitted that the
startup’s product was “kind of bullshit” and they were just along for the ride.
In most cases, startup CEOs seem to be young white male whiz kids who got a big
first round of funding through an “angel investor” known as Dad—or like, Dad’s
friend, with the expectation that Dad would return the favor for Dad’s friend’s
son so the nepotism wouldn’t be quite as transparent.
This is exactly what the Y Combinator gods mean when they say they “invest in the
founder, not the idea” (you see this in Hacker News comments all the time). YC
recruits well-connected, photogenic founders, then push money around for fun
and profit—that’s it. If they happen to churn out a useful idea, then that’s
just dumb luck; it’s not required for the business model to pan out.
