This shows what a nice guy Fred is. How many VCs would advertise a bunch of promising deals to other VCs?

I hope this doesn't read back negatively but YC is looking a lot like Triple-A ball in major league baseball.

A talent farm for players brought up through the draft, you let VCs scout and choose who they want on their team... hah cool.

best. analogy. ever.

too bad it was lost on over half the audience here, and I'm gonna get down-voted for this, but yeah, just like the minors.

To those of us in short-season Class A, Triple-A looks pretty good.

Well, has he taken his checkbook out yet? :)

You can learn a lot about the character of VCs by their blogs. I had a gut feel Fred is an up and up guy, and from what you confirm that seems to be the case. Hopefully I'll get the chance to do business with him.

ok boys, enough ass kissing, get back to work.

yeah, but the ass kissing feels good to me!

fred

Hey Fred, (assuming it really is you), I just noticed you're using the disqus comment system on your blog. Pretty cool! PG, have you given any thoughts to using the disqus system in news.YC?

I'm already using it on my site. If I used it on news.YC, it would replace news.YC.

I guess what I had in mind is to somehow link the disqus users with news.YC users so that e.g. Fred Wilson would not have to re-register at news.YC.