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by swampthing 2869 days ago
Before he started Vidpresso, Randall was helping out my YC batch with feedback on their demo day pitches. It wasn't his job - he was just being helpful. The nicest guy you'd ever meet.

Props to Randall on all the hard work building Vidpresso over the years - and congrats on the exit!
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randall 2869 days ago
Dude thanks so much. Clerky has saved my bacon so much!
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timr 2869 days ago
Loops now, dude.
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grosjona 2869 days ago
>> The nicest guy you'd ever meet.

...Or most scheming. Obviously his strategy worked out for him. Truly nice people don't care about making money so they wouldn't apply to Y Combinator to begin with.

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swampthing 2868 days ago
His strategy of obtaining a HN comment from me 7 years later?
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grosjona 2868 days ago
You know exactly what I mean but you can keep pretending not to. It's about signaling.

People who are accepted into Y Combinator know how to keep their eye on the ball; if they move a muscle, it is only to catch the ball. So yeah, I think he was just pretending to be nice.

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randall 2867 days ago
It's interesting you can infer so much negativity about me, a person with whom you've never had a single interaction.

I applied / was accepted into Y Combinator, therefore I "know how to keep my eye on the ball" and was the "most scheming." I also care a lot about money because "Truly nice people don't care about making money so they wouldn't apply to Y Combinator to begin with."

Did you ever think the goal of my application to y combinator, and subsequent acquisition by fb, were actually not driven by money, but by the vision of making video more like HTML... a vision from which i've been proceeding on since 2008? Money is great and good and everything, but seriously, I don't care about money. My real goal is to make my vision happen... money is a complete afterthought.

I realize this is casting pearls before swine, but seriously, you should realize sometimes people can be genuinely nice, and have genuinely good outcomes, without being scheming. In fact, PG wrote a whole essay about an email I once sent him, after I worried about not being scheming enough.

http://paulgraham.com/safe.html

Just saying. Maybe people are nice... and not all yc applicants care about money.

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swampthing 2867 days ago
Honestly, I didn't know what you meant. I actually thought your comment might have been sarcasm.
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