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CEO @LambdaSchool (YC S17): A CS education that's free until you get a job. I have made remarks that I do not agree with.

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    Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred May 14

    I’ve recently learned that if you come across someone whose thinking you respect and learn from you can just email them, and there’s a non trivial chance you’ll be able to get to know them better Exceptions: very famous people and people who take meetings for a living (e.g. VCs)

    7:59 AM - 14 May 2018
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      2. Richard M.‏ @gnarmac May 14
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        I remember as an undergrad I was writing a paper and was confused about something in an academic paper. Emailed the author and he responded within minutes. To academics this is probably a routine, obvious thing to do but I felt the world open up a little.

        1 reply 0 retweets 20 likes
      3. Richard M.‏ @gnarmac May 14
        Replying to @gnarmac @AustenAllred

        Academics are great this way. Often they have all this expertise and are dying to share it w someone outside their community.

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      2. Vinay Hiremath‏ @vhmth May 15
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        I emailed @paulg when I dropped out of school and had no job and was trying to make it in the Silicon Valley and was looking for advice. Still have those emails saved. I couldn’t believe he responded.

        2 replies 0 retweets 8 likes
      3. Abhishek Kaushik‏ @akaushik759 May 15
        Replying to @vhmth @AustenAllred @paulg

        What exactly did you ask for? Directly for any openings? Or went with explaining your situation?

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      4. Vinay Hiremath‏ @vhmth May 15
        Replying to @akaushik759 @AustenAllred @paulg

        Explained how I had gotten rejected by 70ish companies and landed 2 offers and wanted his input on how to decide between them. With busy people you don’t know, always go in with pointed, low-investment questions that build off action you took. Over time, ask more.

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      5. Abhishek Kaushik‏ @akaushik759 May 15
        Replying to @vhmth @AustenAllred @paulg

        Sounds perfect, thanks. Will try cold emailing if I visit San Francisco next month for Draper, to meet a few people.

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      1. Ilya Sukhar‏ @ilyasu May 14
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        I think this works for VCs too.

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      1. Andrew  👏 K  👏 Musselman  👏‏ @akm May 14
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        Fine, we'll get you on the podcast soon @joelgrus @Adversarial_L

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      2. A. Martin Castro‏ @AMartinCastro May 16
        Replying to @AustenAllred @sehurlburt

        One time when I was (much) younger I sent a cold pitch to Chris Andersen from WIRED, who I had been reading for years. He replied very graciously and turned me down, but it was still the highlight of the entire year and made me feel like I could do anything.

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      3. A. Martin Castro‏ @AMartinCastro May 16
        Replying to @AMartinCastro @AustenAllred @sehurlburt

        I think I was 21 maybe? Total idiot kid and he knew it, but he was so kind and thoughtful. He gave me the bravery going forward to feel comfortable cold calling which in retrospect enabled my whole career.

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      1. Karl Schmidt‏ @kschmidtdev May 15
        Replying to @AustenAllred @sehurlburt

        Yup, when I was in high school working on a quake 2 mod, @ID_AA_Carmack graciously responded to my silly question about integrating FMOD for streaming mp3 playback via gamex86.dll

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      1. Yves Muya-Benda‏ @yvesmuyabenda May 14
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        Conversation with such a person is one of the fastest ways to begin to accurately interpret their thoughts; but one has to be careful to make it worthwhile for the person you are speaking to, and not just be a drain on their energy and time.

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      1. Andy Wood‏ @GaiaEternal May 15
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        My response ratio, even from medium-well known people, is surprisingly high.

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      1. Collin Bell‏ @SlightlyCyborg May 14
        Replying to @AustenAllred @chrishouser

        Steve Jobs called up Hewlet

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      1. John Greer‏ @JohnCGreer May 14
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        So what'd you learn and who from?

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      1. Hallie Lorax‏ @hrlomax May 14
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        I feel like sometimes this even does actually works for really famous people/VCs

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      1. Collin Bell‏ @SlightlyCyborg May 14
        Replying to @AustenAllred @chrishouser

        I've done this a few times!

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      1. Anton Troynikov‏ @atroyn May 14
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        you're revealing my super power please stop

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