I can't see why they are any exception from politics, budgets, old systems, problems finding smart recruits, empire building, and lack of leadership, management and direction. We see them as something they are not. I think they are probably not far removed from the department of motor vehicle IT department and I sure don't fear them folks and the business analysts and help desks.
I would have switched to typescript but I had to rename EVERYTHING from something to something else in order to use TypeScript. If that's how "compatible" starts, well, no thanks cause clearly that's just the start of the pain.
Compatible should be same files, new compiler = "just works".
I think Gates, even if he had to give an exclusive license to IBM for DOS, would have come up with an operating system for the other computer companies demanding one. Paul Graham is wrong on how this would have played out.
Gates already had the business model in place for licensing basic to computer manufacturers. It's easy to see he would have extended that to some DOS-like operating system.
Indeed he went onto do precisely that with Windows, leaving OS/2 to IBM and failure.
PG called this one wrong. Gates would still have come to own the industry as he did, whether or not the DOS deal with IBM was exclusive. The computer industry was always set to expand and Gates was always the guy to meet the demand. Gary Kildall had shown by this stage he didn't have what it took to pick up every commercial opportunity offered.
Is this real or marketingspeak? Are there YC companies here who can describe what the actual benefits are of being a member of YC?
My understanding of all venture capitalists is that they like to sell their business expertise, contacts, network, but does this really amount to anything ordinary they just want a slice of the company?