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Could this be the best contender to the stupidest idea on the last 10 years by a big tech corporation?

In the past several people have done this I have know of at least four, they got the interview but no success story of getting in, best of luck.

Nice idea, did you manage to get into YC?

Because it's a perfect competition market and there are no significant differences between players, they all offer the same catalogue and almost the same user experience.

No free trial?

Correct I have updated the title to reflect that.

Unfortunately she died in May 12,2016.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susannah_Mushatt_Jones

> Previously someone mentioned the idea of a $1/mo. social network.

Dalton Caldwell currently chief of admissions at YC, tried exactly this at App.net a couple of years ago.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalton_Caldwell

Related interesting info:

Eating bone marrow played a key role in the evolution of the human hand

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/07/180711105725.h...

Prehistoric humans ate bone marrow like canned soup 400,000 years ago

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/10/191009142902.h...

Personally I Think Paul Graham is very under appreciated, his legacy on the Startup ecosystem and zeitgeist will probably only be recognised many years on the future. It's a great pity that he doesn't write these wonderful essays for some time now.

Sometimes I wonder if this incident didn't happen, would the UK had entered the Euro and Brexit wouldn't be on the horizon today.

This incident was the main reason the UK didn't enter the Euro.

This wonderful BBC documentary explains everything on detail.

https://youtu.be/K_oET45GzMI

Bananas are a good example they are all clones, 95% of banana exports come from a single cultivated variety, the Cavendish.

Well, kefir should really be made with unpasteurised milk the commercial ones are pasteurised.

Wonderful story Thanks for sharing it with details and updates. A little question is funding the current bottleneck for your growth? If you receive $X Million how would you spend it to increase the growth?

Probably, almost every dollar you receive from IPO will go into paying taxes.

Pegging Libra to just the Dollar could soothe regulators, a16z says

https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/11/libra-denominated-in-dolla...

Interesting to see A16Z trying to get on the really early investing as YC is going upstream to latter investing.

I know Gitlab, Zapier are remote could you please disclose what are the other two?

I phrased it incorrectly, you are spot on "much less bio-available when compared with animal products"

For example people following the Carnivore diet.

Well there are some that say that minerals on vegetables are not bio-available for the human digestive system, so in the end doesn't make a lot of difference.

They are metabolized and excreted by the animal, some animals have evolved to deal with the toxins.

Oxalates sometimes stay on the animal.

That's the case for most fruits.

People that defend the Carnivore diet, argument that plants don't want to be eaten and because they lack locomotion to run away but are excellent at chemistry, have developed toxins to protect themselves from predators.

Thanks Luke, for releasing the home plans and such a detailed explanation on why it didn't work.

> It's actually super common

I didn't know that, I knew that was normal practice on recruiting but I didn't imagined it on fundraising.

> that will eventually be worth 10x

The seed stage VC's are probably targeting more on the 100x - 1,000x range :)

:) well I posted on a FYI - For Your Information only angle.

My thoughts: seed valuations for YC Demo Day are probably on a all time high, VC's giving gifts to be able to get in rounds looks like something out of Silicon Valley HBO, ok I remembered everything on SV HBO is based on real life events.

Fresh out of Y Combinator, Tandem lands millions from Andreessen Horowitz

https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/20/tandem/

"is raising a $7.5 million seed financing at a valuation north of $30 million"

"We’re told several top venture capital firms were vying for a stake in Tandem. One firm even gifted the founders a tandem bike, sources tell TechCrunch, resorting to amusing measures to sway the Tandem team. But it was a16z — which has an established interest in the growing future of work sector, evidenced by its recent investment in the popular email app Superhuman — that ultimately won the coveted lead investor spot."