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Comment by pg

19 years ago

No, I'd been working on it for a while.

I'd been thinking of taking that footnote out, since it seemed like everyone now finally understood us. But when I saw that old dumb argument again in the USA Today article, I decided to leave it in.

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ordersup  19 years ago

I can't help but laugh at the audacity of another tech-related investment firm commenting like that. He is trying to persuade people that YC is just writing cheques.

  • pg  19 years ago

    I'm never sure whether such people are clueless or deliberately misleading. I'm inclined to give most the benefit of the doubt and say clueless. When you change the model for something, it takes people a long time to get what you're doing. I remember from web-based software.