Welcome Alexis

http://ycombinator.posterous.com/welcome-alexis

by pg • 16 years ago

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nck42222• 16 years ago

"Anyone on the East Coast thinking of applying to YC should feel free to ask him any questions they have about YC or the application process."

How? Is there an email address?

Hopefully the answer isn't obvious and I've missed it.

pg4• 16 years ago

Oops, yes, just added that to the post.

alexis@ycombinator.com

nck42222• 16 years ago

Sweet, thanks.

edanm2• 16 years ago

More discussion on the other thread:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1653134

justin• 16 years ago

Alexis is one of the most positive and helpful people in the startup community I know. He drew the original logo for Justin.tv, helped us on numerous occasions, and has even tried to launch my voice acting career (a long time dream of mine). Why is he so helpful? Because at heart, Alexis is a great guy who is genuinely interested in helping others.

This is a huge win for YC!

kn0thing5• 16 years ago

Thanks, Jkan. I've always felt your open-source reddit announcement is one day going to launch that voiceacting career.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uo4O4T-7BiE

subbu• 16 years ago

Welcome! You will make this place better.

kn0thing5• 16 years ago

Thanks! I'm aiming to just make it suck a little less ;)

Andrew_Quentin• 16 years ago

Aiming for better would be better ;)

edanm2• 16 years ago

Is YC planning on hiring similar "evangelists" for other places in the world? I'm wondering about Israel, specifically.

pg4• 16 years ago

I hadn't thought about it. The main reason we did this now was that we wanted to hire Alexis, and he wanted to live in NYC.

acangiano• 16 years ago

I think this is a major opportunity for YCombinator.

clistctrl2• 16 years ago

I know there's several of us here in Boston that are excited about this!

igravious• 16 years ago

Yes indeedy, how about the other side of the pond, hmm? :)

jgrahamc• 16 years ago

When you want an Ambassador to London you know where I am :-)

Having Alexis on board is great. He was great when the whole Digg/Reddit recursion thing went crazy that day. I still have the Reddit sticker on my suitcase that he sent out.

imajes• 16 years ago

Congrats kn0thing!

charlief2• 16 years ago

Will Alexis' ambassadorship include Canadian hubs like Toronto, Montreal, Waterloo, etc at some point?

pg4• 16 years ago

Come to think of it, that would be a good idea. So probably yes.

charlief2• 16 years ago

That is excellent to hear. Startup culture is flourishing here and hopefully holds a lot of promise.

kn0thing5• 16 years ago

Steve & I are still recovering from the Toronto reddit meetup (drankkit). Those Waterloo students... wow...

tezza• 16 years ago

"Ambassador to the East" sounded a little like East as in Beijing :: at first, and perhaps only to English ears.

pg4• 16 years ago

It is deliberately medievally grandiose. It goes with his name.

kn0thing5• 16 years ago

Though, I do love travelling...

jl• 16 years ago

Alexis as our Ambassador to the East and Steve (with Hipmunk) in the summer batch-- needless to say I am bursting with joy.

joedynamite• 16 years ago

Lots of good news for us NY folks today.

wealthyox• 16 years ago

Welcome.

dchs• 16 years ago

Yay!

nandemo• 16 years ago

Ah, so HN is becoming like Reddit after all. ;-)

Welcome Alexis

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