[duxup]

I'm always skeptical about "eyeballs" type arguments. If we were talking about millions of people for an advert sure, but most folks here aren't YC participants / won't be and heck most talk about joining a startup as an IC on here is NOT POSITIVE ;)

[johnnyanmac]

It's the car commercial dilemma. No one is going to spend 30,60,100k on a whim because a commercial told them too. But the long term idea is to implant that idea of wanting X brand once you are in the market for a car. You can't know what you don't know.

But such effects need to be measured over years, not weeks. So a company won't know until it's too late.

[dragonwriter]

> most talk about joining a startup as an IC on here is NOT POSITIVE

I think to the personality type most sought after for startup jobs, the discussion here is net encouraging.

Being discouraging to others is a side benefit. (Note that I am not in the group to whom it is encouraging.)