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medium.com 8y ago

Keep your receipts: when doing Diversity and Inclusion work is still not enough

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medium.com 9y ago

I have more work to do (Chris Sacca)

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www.nytimes.com 9y ago

New Cyberattack Spreads from Russia to Britain

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github.com 10y ago

A Hubot Adapter for Facebook Messenger

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www.forbes.com 10y ago

ZeroCater (YC W11) hit $100M in sales with $1.5M in funding

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www.facebook.com 11y ago

Ask Sam Altman anything

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lucyguo.quora.com 11y ago

Why I Left the Thiel Fellowship for Quora

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dl.dropboxusercontent.com 11y ago

Blonk Acquisition Opportunity [pdf]

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techcrunch.com 12y ago

Hackathons Taking Center Stage, The Transformation Of The Computer Scientist

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new.livestream.com 12y ago

Livestream of the Y Combinator panel at MHacks

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angel.co 12y ago

AngelList is down

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medium.com 12y ago

Dear Corporations, Please Stop Throwing Your Own Hackathons

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www.dropbox.com 12y ago

Facebook is dying.

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jelly.co 12y ago

"The CSS animation on their new site, sure to be a sweeping design trend"

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medium.com 12y ago

Working for the Weekend

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adamsmith.cc 12y ago

YC for Startup Recruiting

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www.livestream.com 12y ago

HackNY Fall 2013 Final Demos Livestream

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livestre.am 12y ago

HackNY Live Demo Stream

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www.howigotmyfirst3customers.com 13y ago

How I got my first 3 customers

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blog.dormroomfund.com 13y ago

Stanford dropouts are missing the boat on changing the world

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mashable.com 13y ago

Jif Peanut Butter Weighs In on GIF Pronunciation Debate

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www.itunes.com 13y ago

Daft Punk releases free official stream of Random Access Memories

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www.slate.com 13y ago

Don’t Watch Cable News and Shut Off Twitter - Breaking news is broken.

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innobluepsu.wordpress.com 13y ago

Recap of HackPSU

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medium.com 13y ago

Something interesting happened at SXSW

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www.ted.com 13y ago

The way we think about charity is dead wrong

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merit.edu 13y ago

Merit goes down - Knocks out .edu Internet across Michigan

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jackwink.com 13y ago

Show HN: Happy Valentine's Day Hack

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www.engin.umich.edu 13y ago

MHacks: Nation's largest student hackathon

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blog.mhacks.org 13y ago

MHacks Expo Info (Largest student hackathon ever)

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Dave here. This is my first blog post I’ve published since the hackathon days.

Would love to hear what yall think!

Honestly, it’s crazy. We back incredible women who end up spending at least four times fundraising than similarly qualified men, consistently get offered lower valuations, and end up raising less capital. It’s fucked up — the three solo female founders we backed are some of the best performers in our fund I so that makes me wonder how many incredible women aren’t getting funded at all who would also crush if they had the resources.

Scaling YC 5 years ago

They said the same thing to me about hackathons when we did 300, then 500, then 1000, then 2000. And I still think hackathons could scale more and benefit from doing so.

But it seems as if no one is bold enough to do so. YC is.

This quote from Sama echoes through my head constantly: “The central learning of my career so far has been that you can and should scale up things that are working. The power of scale, and the emergent behavior that sometimes comes from it, is tremendous. I think about the potential energy of future scale for every investment I make. Most people seem terrible at this, so it’s another bug you can exploit.”

The fastest way to know if someone is the right cofounder is to 1. Work with them in a high pressure / time boxed environment 2. Live with them

This is the perfect environment to do both.

Seeing David’s passion for line rider over the years has been nothing short of inspiring. He’s a mathematical genius who brings that to play across everything from music to line rider to software. Can’t wait to see what they build next!

Oh wow I just got my absentee ballot here in Taiwan and I’m so conflicted. Does anyone know if I should trust this to help me choose who to vote for?

Even as a college hackathon organizer, bank accounts were a huge hassle that almost sank our event. This is incredible.

Every student should have the opportunity to go to a hackathon.

Infrastructure like this is crucial to increasing access.