Not just you.

OP strikes me as quite childish. I’m guessing he’s quite young, nothing wrong with that.

And yeah, the circumstances aren’t great (the stressful move to SF in particular). Tough break!

I'm not sure that's the point

Median age of a YC founder is 24-25. It’s kids hiring kids for startup pressure cookers where most will fail. Professionalism is nice, I highly recommend it when you’re equipped to deliver it (both emotionally and through life experience) but as a professional, I wouldn’t expect it in these contexts. More like a series of tech frat houses grinding to liquidity, acquisition, or failure (from least to most likely).

If you’re going to fail hard and learn it from it, you could do worse than these experiences. If you’re at a startup, you’re either there for the economic opportunity of being on a rocket ship (equity lottery ticket), learning how to be a founder (because you might want to found your own startup), or learning how to do what your role is because you don’t have enough experience to be hired elsewhere (imho). Getting fired is fine, as long as you grow from the experience and weren’t actively or intentionally malicious (don’t do that). Pick yourself up, do better next role and company cast. It’s just a job.

Also why is he putting the company on blast but also sounding super duper grateful to them?

ok great. is it legally required?

this is the next post. thanks. yes it's queued for tomorrow if you can wait that long and subscribe.

thank you for expressing your uncertainty by commenting KaiserPro

some of us CEO types gotta grind and stalk on linkedin until the people come to us haha

also are you saying i'm antagonizing someone, if so what's your evidence? i'm flagging this comment. i think it's egregiously offensive and against HN terms of service.

excuse me you are accusing me in public of threatening and blackmailing someone? that's pretty serious. sounds a bit libelous or slanderous or something aggressive.

throwaday0451 as you characterize me as a blackmailer, are you sure you don't mean "negotiating" or "communicating"?

if so your words are injurous and damage me. do you have a lawyer i can talk to about this public defamation of my language and mischaracterizing me on Hackernews?

i have considered it for 7 years from when i started blogging 60 days straight which is what got me hired to Namebase, Clever, Scale AI and the whole adult life started. do you recall raincom, where you there, when i lived those 7 years? lol

yes right ceo type fine can speak mind free speech murica. good. net worth go up = freedom go up yay, get revenue, get users, become un-fire-able.

or FIRE = independence retire early yes? move to 3rd world country yes? oops been there done that. haha

thanks for suffering thru it and reading to the end <3 hahahahahahaha

why did you comment? and read all of it?

what are these comments? induced by the writer? predicted or not? what is the average view count of his productive function? how would tyler cowen rate it.

exactly! write it's odd. so odd.

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woah that is super rough actually. i'm sorry gjsman-1000 thanks for sharing on HN sincerely. i think more war stories makes the world a better place, in that we build the culture forward one brick at a time. one human talking to another, at a time. this is powerful stuff.

Even you you had cleared the cliff the equity is going to end up worthless 90% of the time.

Equity is a carrot that you usually never get, like the donkey you just keep chasing it.

When you say own you mean fractionally, or founder level share only?

The thing is even if you 'have' the equity share as an employee, you might never get liquidity. And (super obviously) most startups fail.

So even if you have a decent chunk of 'ownership', you really, _really_ need to believe in it to be working those hours. I'm talking the kind of belief built on your specialist and insider knowledge about why it's very likely to crush everything else. And even then you can get screwed!

dam thats dark i'd want my employees grinding and loving it. like Richie: $10M to $400M+ topline in one year and their culture seems healthy

https://aiosmedical.notion.site/working-at-aios https://www.linkedin.com/posts/richard-cartwright_40x-in-12m...

disclosure he's my friend and i already re-posted this to linkedin

100% autism.

yes that is my writing style. it is in fact the writing style of Donald Trump too. in person we are different i promise. as someone who ran both Presidential Scholars for Obama and Trump White House showcasing the INTEL ISEF math olympiad kids to Melania and Michelle, they are all great in person. i cannot speak to Biden and the rest.

give people hugs, as tim ferriss says

happy to share but legally i don't think i'm allowed to say. look at my linked resume and call / text me.

Externalizing feelings.

ok. i'm sorry you're old. me too bro after 30 it's rough.

In addition to the reasons expressed in the comments, another reason may be that you said in the article to "please go upvote" the HN thread, which is against the rules (see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html) and something a lot of HN users care strongly about.

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"he is absolutely insane" so reticulates i'm going to flag this comment and request moderator review on who this acct belongs do it seems pretty hostile.

> I don’t mean that as a slight against him, lots of great people are insane...

This guy's comments here are consistent with a person going through a serious mental health crisis, not eccentricity. Hopefully someone who knows him personally will see this and get him some help.

and since it’s mentioned in the post, it feels fair game to call it out: Andy has revised his experience up over the years, from working at Scale to running support at scale to founding a team at Scale… he was an early employee who did some customer support. Presumably Simple got caught up in Andy’s impressive revisionism.

Infinite Game by james carse = a vision of life as play and possibility

aka have fun, internet is for entertainment following. yes

memes

thank you reticulates for anonymously posting the truth to an account. did you make this account just to comment? following is good on the internet. hiring is BYOR = bring your own risk.

i agree with this assessment. i think it applies to all hires you background check or not.

hiring is an important and undervalued thing to do. people should do it with care.

wait what does green mean for HN handle? you are in YC staff? or new acct?

fyi the purpose is to get a new job, thanks for the -3 downvotes. haha

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