[pg]

This is terrible. I had no idea this had happened till now. I am so sorry. If I had known we'd accidentally sent these people an invitation to interview, we would have just gone ahead and interviewed them.

As far as I am concerned, this is the worst mistake YC has ever made, and we will try never to let this happen again.

[DanielBMarkham]

None of my business, Paul, but you might want to contact the guy and apologize. That had to suck big time.

[pg]

Good idea; I just did.

[mynameishere]

Oh, please. Shit happens.

[DanielBMarkham]

Sure does. And when it happens to your users, you'd better be able to do some scooping real quick. But like I said, not my call.

[mynameishere]

Sheesh. An administrative error.

Hate to sour this little love-in, though.

[bharath]

Its easy to create perceptions of yourself that are simply not true. I was one of the people who got that mail. I really thought about shooting an upset sounding email to Paul. But thought the better of it -- amazing that every other person on that list did the same. Only when I met the YCombinators on the interviews to a subsequent cycle did I figure that they were nice people (inspite of not making it). Absolutely no hard feelings, though. Looking back, I simply was not prepared enough to do a startup. I eventually got around to realizing that I did not need money to built a product -- just a committed co-founder -- and so thats what I did. Yesterday's rejection did not sting at all.

[zaidf]

He went to UNC. I didn't know Adi personally - but from what I hear, he's a great hacker and is working at Microsoft.