but Ycombinator: "It's all about the founders blah blah blah" - if their process finds and funds these kind of people, the process is broken.
[0]: https://www.natlawreview.com/article/colorado-pay-transparen...
To follow a tangent for a second, this doesn't seem wise on Colorado's part. It doesn't strike me as great law to begin with, but I'm willing to concede that point: the problem is that it creates a considerable regulatory burden for an all-remote company which takes on a single Colorado employee.
As someone who works remotely since well before the pandemic, I'd be pretty upset about this if I were a Colorado resident. I have family in Colorado as well, and while I've never seriously considered moving there this law makes it even less likely.
This kind of catastrophizing doesn't contribute. For one thing, you jumped from "this kind of person" to "these kind of people", without supporting evidence.
Do you have a process which can identify, in advance, everyone who is going to be an asshole to a former intern? While picking enough winners to make bank? Please share!
Oh, if I had two wishes from a genie, first would be world peace, second would be being a native English speaker.
"these kind of people" is ungrammatical ("kind" is singular, "these" and "people" are plural).
Maybe in this case English isn't as hard as you thought. :)
Not much of a jump: "kind" at the very least strongly implies the plural already. If you mean just one person, you say "this person", whereas "this kind of person" means "this person and others like him". AFAICS "this kind of person" and "these kind of people" are pretty much synonyms; the only difference between them is that the former is grammatically correct.
Maybe these situations are not the norm, but they are certainly happening.
Between this, and the story the other day related to founders bragging about taking advantage of certain vaccination site - it certainly seems that there is a basic "asshole filter" somewhere that YC does not have tuned correctly. Alternatively, they do have it tuned - and they don't mind assholes so long as they make them money... But yeah, YC should probably respond to some of this. Even if it's not a trend, it seems to now have the appearance of one.
Let's iterate some famous startup founders. I could totally see them going off like this. Steve Jobs? Check. Elon Musk? Check.
Not defending bad behavior, but from point of view VC bad behavior is not necessarily a dealbreaker if they can deliver a unicorn.
