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ripped_britches 8 hours ago

I mean trying to insinuate oai is a yc company is just shady right?

I get that the subtext isn’t dishonest, but cmon, you know what you’re doing

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tptacek 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

They were an early funder. Seems p. reasonable for a VC firm to point that out.

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nailer 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Were OpenAI in a batch though? If not, I think maybe OpenAI deserves a mention but after companies that were actually in a batch.

Typography looks great though, animations are smooth, /formidable founder' is original and it's nice seeing Jared Friedman - he was super friendly and acted as a company champion when I applied in 2016.

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tptacek 6 hours ago | parent [-]

I don't think a "fair" ranking of companies with a nexus to YC is really the goal of the page. YC invested in OpenAI; their logo goes on the page. Also, hard to argue that the founders of OpenAI lacked YC credentials. :)

	▲	nailer 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		‘Nexus’ is vague. The page is specifically asking founders to participate in YC’s program and showing founders that participated in YC’s program. Altman’s company Loopt failed - Altman went on to work on OpenAI and YC Research allegedly pledged money: we get it, but that’s not the typical YC founder experience, and it wasn’t Sam’s experience with Loopt. In addition YC Research didn’t send their pledged funds to OpenAI: https://archive.ph/20230518211335/https://techcrunch.com/202... > According to federal tax filings, at least one of the named donors, YC Research, never gave a single dollar

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bflesch 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It's fine they include openai, they can be very proud of sam. What I found a bit weird is that the reddit founder picture shows only two people. History is written by the winners I guess.