• today dhruv and Dhvani told us that they wanted to close yc, here are my thoughts
    • yc isnā€™t my baby, but I feel like Iā€™m its cool uncle. For 3 years, Iā€™ve seen yc succeed, fail, and then fail more, and while that has happened Iā€™ve thought of ways we could improve, stuff we are doing wrong, and what we could do to fix it. Iā€™ve never taken initiative though, and now I see that I waited too long. So far Iā€™ve been a worker bee, not a visionary.
      • ā€I learned that progress requires iterations, and iterations require failure. A feedback loop to rememberā€ - 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 donā€™t want an elegant departure, I want a brutal deathā€”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 Iā€™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