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Solar and wind are great, but they don't provide continuous power. We need them, and nuclear.

Build those too!

The people who buy at an artificially and temporarily high price, mainly.

Yep.

Stock incentives became considered worthless, and most people were happy to have a job.

Yes, exactly so.

On this topic, Mixpanel at this stage is the magic blend of:

* Track record of consistently impressive revenue growth. * Impressive current level of revenue. * Comprehensive plan and organization in place to continue growing revenue. * Large and expanding market. * And bonus points, doing all that while simultaneously generating vs burning cash!

Yep.

The best book is "No":

http://www.amazon.com/No-Only-Negotiating-System-Need/dp/030...

And there's a reason that's the title :-).

Mark is performing for television. The only appropriate response to a 30 second offer is "f--- off".

All correct.

High quality investors and hiring managers don't make offers to people they're not highly interested in.

Odds are much higher that interest is close to 0.99 than 0.1.

Good VCs and good employers only make offers when they really want the candidate.

That is precisely the right thing to do.

Bingo.

The goal is to annotate everything, definitely including legal texts.

I've also heard that Earl of Sandwich guy is a real asshole.

How did Hacker News evolve from the discussion board for YC, to the discussion board where the first comment on any post involving a YC company is reliably someone crapping on it? What an amazing shift.

You will indeed not hear from me that there is going to be some new and improved version of communism or collectivism that will solve all these problems :-).

Great piece.

"My guess is to have an in-house team that can help out the companies they fund."

Nope.

"Douchebag culture (which is in vogue among the VC darlings, especially in the elite networks OP described) is a historically white phenomenon: popped collars, brogramming, saying shit like YOLO and WHPH ("work hard play hard"). Douchebag culture is a dominant culture in the Valley."

I don't work with anyone who sounds IN ANY WAY like what you're describing. I won't go so far as to say I think you're making it up, but if this is real, it's doing a very good job of hiding from us at least.

Also 100% correct.

100% correct.

Can you cite any facts that would indicate you didn't just pull that out of your rear?

OK then, I'll just put you down for "making shit up".

"As an anecdotal data point, I haven't met a lot of white people from lower-class backgrounds who are players in the Bay Area technology scene."

Hi!

Do you have any evidence "VC connections" had anything to do with anything? Or are you just making shit up?

Compare and contrast:

http://www.bls.gov/emp/ep_chart_001.gif

Summary for the graphically challenged: unemployment in the US is low (<5%) for people with bachelor's degrees and up, and high (>5%) for people with less than a bachelor's degree. Unemployment rises directly in proportion to how little education one has.

That's a brave stand for a throwaway account!

nasalgoat 256 days ago:

"I'm sorry, but the talent shortage is a real thing... we have a really difficult time filling our open positions."

Glad to hear you've solved the problem so fast!