[jsherry]

Whether or not it was his intention, Dave McClure successfully framed 500 in the discussion of the premier accelerator program - YC. And he also sent a battle cry to his portfolio, pitting them as the underdogs. I'd say this post was pretty well done regardless of whether you agree with his points.

[tstyle]

I think pg recognizes the post for it's marketing brilliance, which is why he is calling bs.

It was interesting that aside from having the scrappy image, many of the athletes used in the analogy(Ichiro, Nash, and Dirk) happens to be foreign. The post is an attempt to differentiate from a leading competitor for talent on multiple fronts(Home Run vs Singles/Globalization vs Valley/Hackers vs Marketers).

[GBond]

"Law of the Ladder" strategy of the post is a good play.

Another point about the scrappy image: one of the points of PGs essay was to state that sometime the non-obvious guy/gal wins the biggest the end. 500 is saying they are that non-obvious accelerator.

[arthurgibson]

Does Dave know Ichiro plays for the Yankees now?

[ahi]

He says so about a third of the way down, but maybe he added it after the fact?

[davemc500hats]

yes, did know that & included it in the original draft.

[onetimeuse001]

Not really, he's giving YC a lot of backhanded compliments