[cheetos]

Who are RapGenius' investors? Who is bankrolling these people?

[minimaxir]

Andreessen Horowitz, to the tune of $15M. Rap Genius was also a part of YC S11.

http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/03/andreessen-horowitz-iinvest...

http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/rap-genius

[cheetos]

Thanks.

[Asparagirl]

The same people who bankroll(ed) GitHub. This is my shocked face.

[tptacek]

That is a tired, cheap, superficial point that is beneath this site. If you want to build a case against valley startup culture --- and there sure are cases to be made --- try to do it without creating a caricature of everyone else who has concerns as well.

[Asparagirl]

"Not all VC's."

[tptacek]

Now you're making a joke out of "not all men". Are you sure you're helping?

[ahelwer]

Hmmm? "Not all men" is usually presented as a joke. For example, [0]. Similar riffs can be found involving, for example, the Kool-Aid Man.

As an aside, your comment is very patronizing.

[0] http://i.imgur.com/ZS87l6M.png

[morgante]

Rap Genius and GitHub aren't even in the same league.

GitHub had some serious HR issues and internal mismanagement.

Rap Genius has an entire brand, emphasized through every public appearance, of utter douchebaggery.

[Confusion]

Yes, both Github and Rap Genius are obviously utterly evil corporations and the source of their connection, which is also the sole source of their existence, must necessarily have spawned their evilness.

Downvoted for at least a triple non sequitur and not adding anything on topic, except for an attempt to derail it into yet another discussion about the thing that must not be.

[Mystalic]

And Y Combinator.

[tptacek]

Wasn't Rap Genius already pretty well-known before they were accepted into YC? You could do a site that annotated sheet music for Polka tunes, or annotated cat pictures with more different cat pictures, and YC would still probably accept you if your traction looked like the first few years of RG's.