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These First Round content marketing articles are uniformly ridiculous, yet they consistently make the HN front page.

I mean guys they are telling you to “groom watermelon farmers“ with a straight face as business advice. I feel like like Mike Judge would have tossed that line out as too over the top.

They don't consistently make the HN front page, or even come close. Looks like 4 out of 30 articles in the last 8 months:

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=firstround.com

The first round writer didn't make up the watermelons. That was a tradition Gusto had since one of their first hires.

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