[borski]

This is exactly what strikes me as odd about the whole thing. 'dang has made an impressive effort to keep everything on HN as transparent as possible, and this explanation just screamed inconsistency.

Were the real reason, as stated here, published the first time, I wouldn't even have bothered to comment.

[tptacek]

And, YC, you can be inconsistent. That's fine with me.

But when you're inconsistent, you should bear a special obligation to be generous and charitable to the people you're disadvantaging. YC didn't live up to that obligation here.

[license2e]

Sounds to me like they were generous, with their time. Kevin called him and they had a conversation... that's more than any other VC will do.

[tptacek]

"Asshole VC associate" is not the bar YC is trying to clear.