• today dhruv and Dhvani told us that they wanted to close yc, here are my thoughts
    • yc isn’t my baby, but I feel like I’m its cool uncle. For 3 years, I’ve seen yc succeed, fail, and then fail more, and while that has happened I’ve thought of ways we could improve, stuff we are doing wrong, and what we could do to fix it. I’ve never taken initiative though, and now I see that I waited too long. So far I’ve been a worker bee, not a visionary.
      • “I learned that progress requires iterations, and iterations require failure. A feedback loop to remember” - my loran essay
      • and right now, if I let Dhruv and Dhvani close yc while thinking there is still a chance, then once again I would just be doing what they say without that much insight gained
      • I don’t want an elegant departure, I want a brutal death—much more to be learned
      • I mean if dhruv and Dhvani hand yc off to us, and we fail miserably again and figure out that this was a dumb idea and we are bad leaders in comparison to you, crash and burn, then at least we have closure and that closure has a lot to take away from
      • if we just close yc and do all these closing down errands, thats leaves a loop forever open in my mind
    • Problems with yc
    • Solutions for yc
      • Hire for commitment, not talent
        • Dhvani thinks commitment can be found, I think it can be built
      • how do you build commitment
        • only committed people can make people committed
        • need to spend time
        • mentorship/relationships
        • ownership
  • How do you end a conversation?
    • recently I’ve just been saying, okay I have to go do x now. This is so unnatural and ruins the overall quality of the conversation.
  • idea
  • https://youtu.be/-4RzqzWpi3c