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by marknutter 3819 days ago
> I spent over 60 hours of intense work to do a project for free for them that they requested.

That might be where you went wrong.
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davecraige 3819 days ago
At the time, Magic was one of the hottest startups in the Valley. I was willing to hustle hard to get my foot in the door.

But I agree with you, I need to be more judicial with my time in the future.

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marknutter 3819 days ago
Sounds like you got hustled. But it's a lesson learned, so at least there's some value there.
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davecraige 3818 days ago
yea Mark, you are right. I did learn an expensive lesson.

One of my main frustrations though was that this was a very highly regarded YC company. Should consumers expect this disrespectful behavior to be accepted from other YC companies as well?

Should YC founders be expected to be able to simply pick and choose which customers they want to arbitrarily delete?

I can completely understand if this was a fly by night operation. But YC is basically the Harvard of startups and this was completely out of left field for me.

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