By Larry Chiang
Peter Thiel has invested in ways to live forever. I just wanna use my 488 points of IQ to help your YC startup come back from the dead.
Edit. Learn to #cs183e.

“how to avoid the fatal pinch” is a lot like removing orange cream sauce from a silk blouse. Paul Graham said “how to avoid the fatal pinch” in his essay “Default Alive or Default dead”
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“how to avoid the fatal pinch” paulgraham.com/aord.html *Fatal pinch* at YC is often 1-3 founders going to GSB orBoston 4MBA. #DuckBk twitter.com/yaelhochberg/s… |
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#DuckBK [bk = bankruptcy]
I started Duck9. It’s number 1 in helping college students avoid credit code 9. A bk in the euphemism “chargeoff”. Make no mistake, 9s are treated like a bankruptcy!!
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“how to avoid the fatal pinch” #DuckBK [bk = bankruptcy]
paulgraham.com/aord.html twitter.com/larrychiang/st… |
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“‘logic bomb’, a scrap of code that triggers a malevolent event when certain condition” rollingstone.com/tv/recaps/mr-r…
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I took notes on logic bombs watching #mrRobot bc VC lemmings resigning from board “triggers abandonment” #duckBk
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Even if furloughing employees to stay solvent is an option… the. Bank. Will. Call. Your. Debt.
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Page 8 (of 34 #DuckBk at #sxsw) from the 8:10am #SpringForward breakfast! My #cs183e notes w Barry that went until 12. @LarryChiang pic.twitter.com/vPmJMnuPcj
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