My senior is on leave, and he misspelled my email address on his out of office email. I really do serve a living God.

If employees that built such a complex have no equity incentives what makes a common class shareholder like you special. You are at the bottom of the food chain

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You Are Never Too Big to Start Something New! There is something I have noticed about Silicon Valley that I deeply admire. You find founders who have already built enormous companies, made millions or billions of dollars, managed thousands of people and achieved the kind of success most entrepreneurs spend their lives chasing. And then they start again. Adam D’Angelo had already built Quora into a company valued at around $900m when Quora joined YC. Parker Conrad had already built Zenefits to a $4.5bn valuation, then still went through YC again with Rippling. The money was obviously not the point. It was the network, the pressure, the people, the access and the environment. The mindset goes beyond YC. Bret Taylor had already co-created Google Maps, served as Facebook CTO, founded Quip and sold it to Salesforce, then became co-CEO of Salesforce. He still left and now building Sierra even though he's chair at OpenAI. Chamath had already made serious money at Facebook and built Social Capital, yet kept moving back toward building and operating. Even Jeff Bezos, after building Amazon, started again with Project Prometheus and went back into an operating role. Where I come from, I have seen selection committees discuss an accomplished founder and disqualify them because: “You don’t need the money.” “You’ll be too busy.” “You’re too big for this.” “You should be a mentor instead.” I think this is bigmanism, one of our African diseases. We sometimes believe that once you become successful, your role changes. You should sit on panels, give keynote speeches, mentor and sponsor. But you should no longer be in the room as a participant. I disagree. You or I am not too big to be in your accelerator if your accelerator can unlock opportunities I can take advantage of that a first-time founder cannot. Lowkey, I can also be useful to first-time founders simply by being in the room as another founder who has seen some of the movie before. Great ecosystems understand this: success should not disqualify you from opportunity. Sometimes it makes you much more capable of taking advantage of it. The question should not be, “Why does this person need our accelerator?” It should be, “What could this person build if we accelerated them?”

My close friends know my income, and I know theirs as well. We discuss money, spending habits, and investments. Despite our varying financial situations, we all contribute equally when we go out. There’s no sense of entitlement or expectation based on someone’s higher income. No one pocket watches and that’s why transparency can exist

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