Comments on: Reflections of a Y Combinator Dropout http://workingthrough.com/blog/271-this-fine-memoir thinking about/with creative people and groups Fri, 20 Mar 2009 12:20:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Orian Marx http://workingthrough.com/blog/271-this-fine-memoir/comment-page-1#comment-126 Orian Marx Thu, 16 Oct 2008 05:39:10 +0000 http://workingthrough.com/blog/271-this-fine-memoir#comment-126 Thanks for the link! I just <a href="http://www.orianmarx.com/2008/10/16/reflections-of-a-y-combinator-dropout-feedback/" rel="nofollow">posted a follow-up</a> that reflects on reaction from the YC community after posting on their forum. There has been a lot of interesting reactions. Discussions of YC as a cult are interesting. I don't think it is a cult at all, but there is a reverence for Paul Graham that can sometime be a bit scary. This was something I discussed with my partners, who had been reading his work a long time before I did, and they got pretty pissed off about it (not to mention when I disagreed with him about how to resolve our partner disputes). So, while I do not believe YC in any way is a cult, it does seem to generate some cult-ish behavior. Thanks for the link! I just posted a follow-up that reflects on reaction from the YC community after posting on their forum. There has been a lot of interesting reactions.

Discussions of YC as a cult are interesting. I don’t think it is a cult at all, but there is a reverence for Paul Graham that can sometime be a bit scary. This was something I discussed with my partners, who had been reading his work a long time before I did, and they got pretty pissed off about it (not to mention when I disagreed with him about how to resolve our partner disputes). So, while I do not believe YC in any way is a cult, it does seem to generate some cult-ish behavior.

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