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N minutes ago, for the N00th time, someone approaching their first job in industry sent me an email out of the blue with a winding story about their salary negotiation and the question "Should I ask for X or would that be too much?" My advice: pretty predictable. Took 30s.
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There are very few future world states in which I will regret the trade "I spent ~2 hours on email in 2020 answering a question which is a bit below my paygrade. Now, in 2030, 250 geeks walk around every day attributing
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I apologize for sounding mercenary about this. Call it a lens to bring to the table. It feels obvious to me, at a primal level, that of course one would welcome questions from people getting started, but many folks do not share this intuition, so maybe the sketched math helps.
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YC is a staggeringly successful business and I would attribute at least tens of percent of it to the market consensus in Silicon Valley previously being "If you can't find an intro to me you're not worth my time to talk to" and pg et al saying "Any geek any time any way."
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I do not think that YC will be the last or largest success built off that (or similar) insights.
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Well, you are backing this up with an example of heavily prefiltered college students. If you are talking totally random samples of each population, I will pick the CEOs, for sure.
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Very good. I did pick the CEOs without thinking much, but by the end of your thread you convinced me otherwise.
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