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people thought you guys were crazy when you made that late I think was a hundred million dollars into Twitter what was the valuation when you guys did that four billion or something it was something like maybe a three million change yeah and everybody's like oh Kleiner's late to the party they're catching up but that wound up being 10x mm 20x no 10 to 15 x depending on when you liquidated that would wind up being at least 4x probably more like 10x depending on you liquidated a hundred million ye
if you take if you tickle get a Y Combinator company presentation they always have the hockey stick charts yes with nothing on the axis right nothing no metric nothing nothing suspicious there
they make my job harder frankly right because everything coming out of there looks about the same good and the bad right right they're basically trained people to do the total addressable market is trillions that's right the competition is nothing else and here's our first 12 weeks
a company in its last week of its 13 weeks with y combinator changes its business completely doesn't change the slide deck presents and gets money for using the exact same hockey sticks new business
I think if you have a strong network already then they can be they can actually be isolating versus expansive right and I also think that if you have a strong base for you building your own business and attracting your own employees and investors beforehand then you're not gonna get much of value from right if you already have the network if it's your mark pink is doing Zynga that's why everybody knows who you are already we don't really need any extra love