Matt Maroon: Demo Day

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Enough with the tantalizing teases: when will we finally get to know what the current YC companies are actually doing??

Seriously guys Tichy has a point here. I am a big fan of YC startups ( even though we did not make it this time and sure will next one), but telling us about the night before and the day after is not really "feeding one's intellectual curiosity". So please let's try to stay around The "Hacker News" theme until we change it to something broader. PS:"Matt, this is not personal at all. We just want to know what's for diner"

Put yourself in their shoes. If you had a choice between making people happy on a web forum and doing what you think is best for your StartUp, which would you choose?

There are cases where StealthMode makes sense, right? Without knowing what they're doing, it'd be hard to give a good reason why they shouldn't be in StealthMode.

Drunk dudes whizzing on trees, a couple shots before the meeting, "strap on some plums" t-shirts. Apparently even Y-Combinator can't escape the inevitable consequence of nerds turning into frat boys as soon as they get a little money...

From what I've read on his blog, it seems like Matt was never really a nerd to start with. His startup seems to be involved with sports somehow from what I can gather?

I've said it earlier and I'll say it again - not all hackers and tech entrepreneurs are 'nerds' by the stereotypical definition.

Putting together comments from Matt's blog and the Demo day article from Fred Wilson (?), I think they must be the ones doing fantasy sports betting. Also fits with Matt's background.

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