{"id":12192,"date":"2019-08-03T17:53:26","date_gmt":"2019-08-03T21:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=12192"},"modified":"2019-08-09T19:09:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-09T23:09:00","slug":"the-losers-bracket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/the-losers-bracket\/","title":{"rendered":"The Losers Bracket"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Larry Chiang<\/div>\n
In life, all the winners come outta the losers bracket<\/div>\n
Common sense that is completely wrong says that winners just win all the time. Normal intuition would have you think that winning at entrepreneurship is a smooth path<\/div>\n
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The path is not smooth. Stanford ranked #2-#3 all year but had to win in adverse conditions in Starkville, Mississippi <\/div>\n
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<\/td>\nLarry Chiang @duck9 (@LarryChiang<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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6\/29\/19, 4:48 PM<\/a><\/div>\n
If you got recruited into YC without an application, you\u2019re likely to not value it as much as a person from The Losers Bracket<\/p>\n
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Me?!<\/p>\n

I dropped outta #cs183uiuc<\/a> engineering school 1,000x. And re-enrolled in the morning #cs183DuckBk<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/X08U0H8OYZ<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Download<\/a> the Twitter app to read tweets about #cs183DuckBk<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Some counterintuitive truths <\/div>\n
– quitting at night is critical if you are to rest and recuperate. <\/div>\n
– thrive when you\u2019re placed into a losers bracket<\/div>\n
– if you went to a really good private school, the tendency is that you won\u2019t do well when stuff gets hard<\/div>\n
– YC is the winners bracket. The death toll in the winners bracket is astronomical. <\/div>\n
– facing conditions ripe for corporate bankruptcy gives you tunnel vision. This is the type of vision when you\u2019re low on oxygen and see things as if they\u2019re in a long tunnel. You lose scope, clarity and functionality. <\/div>\n
– over time, if you\u2019re not sleeping at night because you\u2019re under all this pressure, the likelihood of losing increases. If you\u2019re not acing #cs183sleep, your likelihood of bankruptcy rises a lot<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Larry Chiang In life, all the winners come outta the losers bracket Common sense that is completely wrong says that winners just win all the time. Normal intuition would have you think that winning at entrepreneurship is a smooth path The path is not smooth. Stanford ranked #2-#3 all year but had to win […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-duck-chapter-9-startup-bankruptcy"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}