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I know Craig personally, slightly, we've been on panels together. I also know Jim and Susan, been to their place in the city, hung out.

I'm old, 47, been in the valley for 20+ years. Seen a lot of shit, seen a lot of people get screwed over in stock options, seen the good and seen the bad.

What I'm trying to do is establish credibility (prolly didn't do a good job). Whatever. You can listen or not.

Craig is good people. Really really good people. He cares, he does the right thing as much as he can do it. Craigslist could be at least 2 orders of magnitude more rich if they wanted to fuck you over. They haven't done that, they repeatedly try and take care of their users.

If you are unhappy with craig I pity you. Real life is going to fuck you.

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Thanks for your comment.

It's hard to establish your credentials (account created 7 hours ago, just like your post).

Normally I would have looked through your previous comments/blog and tried to establish veracity of your claims. Freshness of account means thats not possible.

But in my mind there's two options

1) You're claims are not legit, you're a stooge

Shame on you.

2) You are legit, and you are mentioning your personal opinion

Thank you! It's nice to hear someone vouching for someone.

The HN startup community do it all the time. They just happen to be 20 somethings looking (rightly) to fit into the YC community.

I don't think you are appealing to authority as your comment will be judged on its own merits. Fuck those argument technicality Nazis anyway... you're not claiming to be a doctor, or the head of some company. Nor are you claiming to have special information that other people don't have... I'm sure lots of people have met this Craig (not me I'm in London) and could deny your view hiding behind screen_names.

I'll wait to see whether you continue to post to see if its 1) or 2). In case you are 2) please don't be discouraged by ignorant haters.

Hi Tezza,

good point on the recent account creation, does make me look like a stooge.

It was/is my personal opinion and I'll try and stick around and establish a track record. I mostly don't do that sort of thing any more (used to be very active) because I got tired of all the armchair quarterbacks telling me I was doing it wrong. There are millions of them and only one of me :)

One slight quibble, I am the head of a (small) bay area software company. I'd kinda like to not be, I'm tired, but for now it is what it is. To all you folks who want to run your own thing my only advice is have fun along the way, spend time with your family, friends, whatever you like, but have fun. The time passes faster than you can imagine.

Anyway, thanks for the pleasant reply, I'll try and emulate your civil tone.

Thank you for the life lesson luckydude, but I'd prefer an explanation from Craig or Jim themselves.

This comment is a giant logical fallacy.

appeal to authority.

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