Comment on Interviewing with YC? Don't overstep the limits like us (but be close)Comments−pg15y"The problem is, while pg outwardly disapproved of our actions, we know he secretly loves founders that push the limits!"You know what, though: the response function around the limit is not a smooth bell curve; it drops sharply below the x axis as you go past the peak.−BrainScraps15yIt took me a while to get this, so I made a helpful graph for everyone else as slow as I am.http://dl.dropbox.com/u/22926250/pgResponse.png−RockyMcNuts15ykind of like a Kelly criterion bethttp://www.math.washington.edu/~morrow/336_10/papers/jane.pd...if you bet like a mouse, you get cheese−palish15yThanks for the interesting paper.−reason15yWould you have funded them had they not pulled their stunts?−pg15yYes. We were influenced by the large number of YC alumni that they got to recommend them, but not by the dinners they organized for the applicants.−andjones15yIs it possible that those two events are connected?−pg15yI believe not, because they could not have organized these events till they'd already been invited for interviews.−paulnelligan15yI find myself wondering if they're still pushing ...−[deleted]15y[deleted]−dools15yWho gets Italy?
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"The problem is, while pg outwardly disapproved of our actions, we know he secretly loves founders that push the limits!"
You know what, though: the response function around the limit is not a smooth bell curve; it drops sharply below the x axis as you go past the peak.
It took me a while to get this, so I made a helpful graph for everyone else as slow as I am.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/22926250/pgResponse.png
kind of like a Kelly criterion bet
http://www.math.washington.edu/~morrow/336_10/papers/jane.pd...
if you bet like a mouse, you get cheese
Thanks for the interesting paper.
Would you have funded them had they not pulled their stunts?
Yes. We were influenced by the large number of YC alumni that they got to recommend them, but not by the dinners they organized for the applicants.
Is it possible that those two events are connected?
I believe not, because they could not have organized these events till they'd already been invited for interviews.
I find myself wondering if they're still pushing ...
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Who gets Italy?