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I spent weeks reading everything YC has ever published about what they look for.

here are 9 things that would have changed how I thought about the application

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@patrickc Claude will now have new model...

"Claude HVAC..."

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@typesfast We got to know new company today...

SoFi...??

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@MichaelDell Some companies should be called as Legends... Dell got placed in that

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@Polymarket This big companies just tossing their staff like this...

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@garrytan Learning the new thing from you today...

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@Polymarket Meta played very well...

They want to monetize the Indian audience....

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List of Indian-origin CEOs running the world’s biggest tech companies in 2026

- Sundar Pichai – CEO, Alphabet (Google)
- Satya Nadella – CEO, Microsoft
- Shantanu Narayen – CEO, Adobe
- Arvind Krishna – CEO, IBM
- Neal Mohan – CEO, YouTube (Alphabet)
- Asha Sharma – CEO, Microsoft Gaming (Xbox)
- Nikesh Arora – CEO, Palo Alto Networks
- Vasant (Vas) Narasimhan – CEO, Novartis
- Leena Nair – CEO, Chanel
- Ajay Banga – President, World Bank (former Mastercard CEO)
- Kunal Shah – Head of WhatsApp (Global)

Do add if i missed someone...

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@PolymarketMoney Whatsapp pay or Meta pay will be the things now...

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@patrickc You just killed my Startup...

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@kunalb11 Well done Kunal... now we will finaly have compitator to Google pay,

Whatsapp pay or Meta pay will be real...

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@paulg Context is important more than explanation...

all LLMs are designed to provide lots of explanation which is not needed,

Verbose needs to be removed from all LLMs

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@tunguz That garage wants you to build the Trillion dollar startup...

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@growing_daniel Its called "Verbose" AI spits our so much unneeded text that has no value adding extra token usage and ultimatly cost to AI

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@paulg Your essays are inspiring and its true roadmap for Startups...

[Colin Gardiner @ColinGardiner]

Who is building a weird marketplace?

I want to talk to you.

Email is [email protected].

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So machine learning is not about Intelligence...? huh

[Yun-Ta Tsai @yunta_tsai]

Many people think any given ML project is 99% training.

In reality, it’s 50% evaluation, 40% data cleaning, 8% integration, and 2% training.

The first two set the noise floor for learning. No ML magic matters; the model cannot lower the noise floor, as that’s the optimal bound of Shannon encoding of your data.

Thus, not a single day goes by without me thinking about ontology. Even the old labels have to be constantly reviewed.

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@yunta_tsai So machine learning is not about Intelligence...?

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@paulg It's called the "distrust tax"

& it forces extra mental effort to second guess colleagues actions, check for errors/deception & consider worstcase scenarios, inflating cognitive load and slowing everything down

Damn, i read lots of books....

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@Tristanrhee3 AI - Software

AI - Hardware...

We got the soul and not its time to make the Bodies, physical bodies...

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@araseb_ 10 Employees??

I am all alone….