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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
Counter: backed Coinbase, Filecoin and OpenSea. Would be hard to find a better crypto track record for generalist VC. And more DPI than most crypto funds.
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Sam (crazy candle person) ✦
@samantha
And foundation, and rainbow wallet!
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Scott Sunarto
@scott
I feel like early 2010s YC is just different (not their fault) Early YC seems to attract a lot of great hacker archetype; as YC became more and more popular, it seems to attract a lot of status seeking archetypes that are also typically laggards and trend chasing. Which sums up many YC's crypto and AI co.
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Manan
@manan
Great point! Although at YC's stage, getting "crypto wrong" and still picking the right founders to bet on is still possible. They've often claimed they will back founders with ok ideas because they know they can help them pivot after. There reinforced core advice of "make something people want" makes them tick.
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Britt Kim
@brittkim.eth
CoinTracker wasn’t terrible either.
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Andrew Jiang 🎩
@ok
Also Hiro / Stacks, @ryanshea.eth was S14 🙂
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aferg
@aaronrferguson
oh I didn't know they backed Filecoin too!
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Suji Yan
@suji
Did YC get file token or mainly equity of protocol lab?(still worth billions)🤔
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Matt Kim
@mattkim
USV?
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timdaub
@timdaub.eth
Actually, that may entirely be true. My main point of criticism is that their moderation with HN is just so awful that they deserve the hate and the bad public image. I‘m happy they had this blunder because they deserve it
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