On: Why you shouldn't join Y Combinator

[jiveturkey]

Disagree with your take, generally speaking. This is just called salesmanship. You don't present a balanced picture, you present a selectively, opinionated, persuasive one. The reader can take from it what they will. And as Daniel points out in a sibling comment, YC is actually much worse on this front.

> I'm pretty sure Daniel worked at Gumroad for a bit,

huh. Yes he appears to have been Head of Product. So I'd say the abstract for https://smallbets.co/event/4019ad11-d5db-45dd-a341-a0f130378... goes beyond salesmanship and is willfully deceptive. Unless he joined Gumroad after that video was produced? Hopefully he'll see this and comment. And update the abstract.

[DVassallo → jiveturkey]

That event is in the future. What’s deceptive about it?

[jiveturkey → DVassallo]

Thanks for clarifying it was in the future. Seems fine then. I read too much into it.