Insider Connections Anecdotes

Commenters frequently share personal connections, friendships, and insider knowledge about the people, companies, or events featured in the main article, highlighting small-world coincidences in the tech industry.

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Sample Comments

aembleton Sep 23, 2024 View on HN

Maybe someone from the company behind the API got in contact with him.

dnautics Aug 19, 2013 View on HN

no, my friend is on the board, I believe he used to work for you.

jdp23 Aug 31, 2011 View on HN

I knew one of the people behind it.

archgoon Jun 29, 2018 View on HN

Sounds like you're familiar with this space and this guy; any thoughts you'd like to share?

tptacek Feb 8, 2009 View on HN

Man to have been a fly on the wall at that VC partner meeting.

uecker Jan 2, 2024 View on HN

Do you have link? BTW: I was tangentially involved in this effort...

gonehome Feb 3, 2011 View on HN

Maybe you should have asked who the other guy was and interviewed him.

DannyBee Nov 20, 2012 View on HN

This was true a few years ago. I have a friend who works on it, and got him drunk enough one night to admit this :)

justadude6 Apr 25, 2012 View on HN

maybe they teamed up at the conference

paxcoder Jan 12, 2015 View on HN

I would be interested in learning who that friend was, and how he got to the proof.