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Will Carkner
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Will Carkner
@CarknerWill
curiously optimistic abundance engineer
San Francisco, USA Katılım Kasım 2021
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@CarknerWill @provenmetal @ycombinator because the hard part was never about assembling circuits, it's deciding what to build in the first place and making sure someone actually needs it
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@CarknerWill @provenmetal @ycombinator time to start a fund just to invest in every Irish hardware founder in SF
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someone made up a story about a yc partner selling batch spots. it was quickly debunked, but it got me thinking about what this place has meant to us, and why it upsets me to see people tear it down
@maebert and i went through the batch last fall. they bet on us before there was much evidence to go on, then taught us the unglamorous stuff, like how to talk to customers and how to sell. yc has always worked this way. take unproven people, often without the right schools or resumes, and make them legible to investors
worth remembering what seed investing looked like before yc existed. convertible notes sitting as debt on your balance sheet. heavy dilution. technical founders getting swapped out for professional ceos. yc invented the SAFE and dragged the whole ecosystem toward founders, including the founders who never got in. standard capital is doing the same thing to the series a now, and that lineage runs straight back to yc
from the outside it looks like an institution. once you’re inside you find it’s just a group of former founders who work absurdly hard on something they could have retired from years ago. they remember what the other side of the table feels like, and it shows
we wouldn’t be where we are without them. grateful they exist
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July 19th at 7:30 am I will be in an Irish bar
Im watching Limerick win the All Ireland final for hurling.
There will no claude code or whisper flow shenanigans. Strictly hurling
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