NYT on Paul Graham's YCombinator Bootcamp

prostoalex writes "The New York Times tells the story of Paul Graham's YCombinator - a venture firm that specializes in funding early stage startups that's famour for startup bootcamps conducted twice a year in Silicon Valley and over on the East Coast. YCombinator's boot camps apparently attract a lot of employees out of major software companies, who are still young and want to run a software startup."

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Re:First Post!

[Anonymous Coward]

Wow! Keep it up and maybe someday you too can be famour!

"MAGGOT! Are you ready to burn through $10M?"

[Cr0w T. Trollbot]

"Sir, yes sir!"

"I can't hear you!"

"SIR, YES SIR!"

"Are you ready to convince angel investors that your fooseball table is an integral part of your creative environment?"

"SIR, YES SIR!"

"Are you ready to convince gullible members of the public that your particular URL is worth several million dollars?"

"SIR, YES SIR!"

"You, maggot! Front and center! What's you're name?"

"Smith, sir!"

"And what do you do, Smith?"

"Program, sir!"

"Well goddamn, a white boy who thinks he can program! Are you half-Asian, boy?"

"No, sir!"

"And what do you think your non-Asian ass is going to be programming in?"

".NET, sir!"

".NET?!?!? .NET!?!? What sort of goddamn candyass faggot shit is that??? No VC is going to give no sucking-his-momma's tit .NET programmer jack! You will program in JAVA, and you will LIKE IT!"

"Sir, yes sir! Java, sir!"

"Now drop into that Aeron chair and give me 20 lines of code!"

Crow T. Trollbot

Re:compared to Phil Greenspun's university

[hondo77]

It also sound a bit elitest and blowhard.

Are you referring to the "college" or Phil? ;-)