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George Patterson Sibble
Personal blog · startupdreams.substack.comstartupscareerculture
George Patterson Sibble writes Innovation Nation, a personal blog at startupdreams.substack.com about startups, career and culture. Since 2023, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 26 times, most often “My biggest takeaways after my first and 2nd startup”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this Substack for posts on San Francisco crime statistics and on engineer hiring and pay. One commenter disputes the post's claim that 20-30% above-market pay is enough to retain talent.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A Critical Thinker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Most-linked posts?
- My biggest takeaways after my first and 2nd startup2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-03-14
- What crime stats don't reveal about crime in San Francisco2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-04-07
What Hacker News says?
The crime rate in San Francisco is statistically low because what is considered a crime in other areas is not considered a crime in San Francisco. https://startupdreams.substack.com/p/what-the-stats-about-cr...
Comment linking /p/what-the-stats-about-crime-in-san
on “SF Whole Foods to Close Due to Increased Crime in Area”Submitted I have never been treated this bad in an interview process in 20 years as a story · 31 points
HN discussion>And like I said, the primary way we retain talent is by paying about 20-30% above market. Only 20-30% above market rate? I thought the idea was to pay them 1.5-2x: https://startupdreams.substack.com/p/my-biggest-lessons-afte... >Many companies take the approach of hiring lots of cheap engineers. I go the opposite. I hire as few fantastic engineers as I can. The math works out. One fantastic engineer can do 3-5x the…
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on a deleted threadSubmitted What crime stats don't reveal about crime in San Francisco as a story · 19 points
HN discussionSubmitted I'm done being an underpaid and mistreated wage slave. I am going out on my own as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted Wealthy students are a primary driver of high rent in college cities/towns as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted San Francisco is in deep trouble as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Returning to the office is counter-productive as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The fall of SVB and how I tried to save as many straps as I could as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted My Biggest Takeaways After Being a Startup CEO Twice as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Looking at a startup CEO's job as a binary decision tree as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A effective trick I learned about retaining engineers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Getting fast internet in college with a Linksys 54G and a Yagi antenna as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI is still pretty dumb as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Never in 20 years of working in tech have I been treated so unprofessionally as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted My biggest takeaways after my first and 2nd startup as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The truth we don't want to admit about what makes a startup successful as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted San Francisco, crime density, and the feeling of safety as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The ongoing flight of capital to higher yield as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why do high interest rates dissuade VC investment? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The rise of Uber and how revolutionary it was as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted You may not have heard of the most important company in the world as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Technology is eating jobs, not creating them (2014 but even more true) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted I once worked so hard for a startup, I lost a tooth as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted We need to teach that owning your time is the path to wealth as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The rise of Omnivore – The company that changed the restaurant industry forever as a story · 1 points
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