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| “That is my startup idea.” (comment) | ||
| recommended by 3 users | 2007 | cperciva on: The Equity Equation | hacker news | original thread | | ||
| cperciva on Jul 18, 2007 | on: The Equity Equation | view on HN | ||
| 3 users recommended this comment. What they said: |
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stefan_ Jan 8, 2019 | on: Ask HN: What is your favorite HN post? | context
The whole thread is a goldmine. The founder of Dropbox offering him a job when they were just starting out: |
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temphn May 19, 2012 | on: Ask HN: Favorite HN threads of all time | context
Dunno. 5 years later and this pair of comments in that thread seems more interesting: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35095 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35103 Dropbox is a huge business, with real revenue, which has helped millions of people. Tarsnap, despite cperciva's obvious talents, has not achieved anything like that level of success. dhouston wasn't flaming people in the thread, cperciva was. Part of a really good comeback is substance. cperciva had the snappy retort. He really had won the Putnam. And on a much smaller scale, he won a comments thread on Hacker News. But the 20 posts there didn't create real world value. dhouston did. Maybe that's the real lesson of Hacker News. The best thread is the one you don't participate in, because you're working. |
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denzil_correa May 22, 2017 | on: Ask HN: Favorite HN comment(s) | context
The HN comment - "comeback of all time". https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079 The thing I liked about the thread is also has Drew Houston from Dropbox talking about his then startup idea. |
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| recommended by 162 users | 2007 | 104 points by dhouston | original thread | | ||
| 2. | “Did you win the Putnam?” (comment) | |
| recommended by 50 users | 2007 | sanj on: The Equity Equation | original thread | | ||
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| recommended by 3 users | 2013 | 1088 points by danielpal | original thread | | ||
That is my startup idea. I don't want to take this thread even more off-topic (if that's even possible), but please feel free to contact me at the address in that first post to explain why you think it is a bad idea.