Comment by cole-k
5 years ago
I can understand now why you would doubt the blog post. Radon and I are friends from college, and in my approximately five years of knowing him I have no reason to believe him ever capable of faking a blog post so he can get back at his former employer. He certainly fights for what he believes in, though.
I suppose we can only wait to hear what Amjad has to say.
Oh boy.
I don't know you, but I really don't think you're making that up. And that means, as a scientist, I now have to contend with the new evidence of "a longtime personal friend of the author, who seems quite reasonable to me, is saying that the blog post should be taken at face value."
...I'll keep asking around. It's not looking good, but it's also unfair not to listen to the other side.
Welp. Time to dive in to the details of this post. Fwiw, if it's genuine, then I empathize greatly with Radon; I've been in a similar situation, where I wanted to build a business but decided against it due to vague threats. I can only imagine what it'd be like to have the threat of sic'ing YC's extremely well-paid lawyers on your ass to hunt for any small violation of your employment terms that they can leverage legally.
Ugh. It just sounds so frickin' cartoonishly evil that I'm having trouble even forcing myself to admit it's possible. But I do admit it's possible.
Can I ask, have you spoken with Radon about this? Did you get the impression that there might be some details omitted, or ... anything? Something other than the cartoonish evil story that I'm being asked to accept as true.
(I admit I'm reaching pretty far with this line of thinking, but, it's possible that there was some crucial context omitted from the post. If so, a five-year college friend should be able to sense whether something like that might've been the case. I'm hoping maybe you did, and maybe you'd be willing to say so if so.)
EDIT: I’m still a bit in shock, but it turns out that you’re completely correct. Thank you, very much, for vouching here for Radon.
He sounds cool.