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Hunter Walk
Personal blog · hunterwalk.comstartupscareer
Hunter Walk's personal blog at hunterwalk.com covers startups and career. Since 2012, 123 different Hacker News readers have linked it 356 times, most often “What's Wrong with Tech Folks Who Attack the Tech Media. and What's Wrong with T”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (13) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Hunter Walk mainly for his MBA essay, "It's fine to get an MBA, but don't be an MBA", and for a few career and startup posts. One commenter calls his programming-career post misleading.
- Recommended for · 4 comments
- MBA essay ("fine to get an MBA, but don't be an MBA") called best framing and great; new-grads post a good pointer
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 13 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Self-Aware Self-Promotion
Most-linked posts?
- What's Wrong with Tech Folks Who Attack the Tech Media. and What's Wrong with T5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2020-02-15
- “Winners Take None:” Coworking, Self Storage, Scooters Have Burned Billions Of4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2023-08-08
- Google Finds That Successful Teams Are About Norms Not Just Smarts3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-09-04
- You’re Either Venture-Backed or a Lifestyle Business: The Big Lie (2014)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-03-05
- Learn to Hire Well and You’ll Never Lose3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-10-22
- Midstage Startups Are Your Best First Job in Tech3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-03-08
- The 10x Angel. The 0x Angel2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-01-22
- You don't get to decide if you're a platform2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-01-05
- I Like You but You’re Not yet My Friend. What Do We Call Each Other?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-08-19
- Three Types of Startup Advisors2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-02-20
What Hacker News says?
Narrow and very misleading way of looking at engineering and careers for sure because it assumes a false binary choice. A choice between doing what you love and making a big payout by doing something else. This assumption is wrong. On one level, there is truth to what is stated--- but it correlates more to big company paths, people who have a conservative view on their ability to leave an impact on the world, and pe…
Comment linking /2014/03/08/new-grads-midstage-startups-are-your-best-first-job-in-tech/
on “Programming Is a Dead End Job”Submitted Facebook could reboot and we'd mess it up again as a story · 96 points
HN discussionI went to https://membership.theinformation.com/subscribe because it looks like something I'd pay for. I hate the trend of not putting pricing upfront. I'm just going to assume I can't afford it. Edit: possibly $400USD/year from https://hunterwalk.com/2013/12/17/400-for-the-information-is...
Comment linking /2013/12/17/400-for-the-information-is-about-whats-missing-not-whats-there/
on “Magic Leap’s technology may be years away from completion”Submitted The Time I “Interviewed” At Apple as a story · 90 points
HN discussionthey seem to have used a file photo from 2007 NYT story that has a toy robot. Hmm, bit tricky - to average person I think the photo suggests THIS is an example of the robots he's working on, no? http://hunterwalk.com/2013/12/03/andy-rubin-poses-with-same-...
Comment linking /2013/12/03/andy-rubin-poses-with-same-drone-2007-2013-what-does-it-all-mean/
on “Google Puts Money on Robots, Using the Man Behind Android”Submitted Why Figma Is Worth $20B and Other Observations from the Adobe Acquisition as a story · 73 points
HN discussionSome tech blogs: Benedict Evans: http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/ Hunter Walk: https://hunterwalk.com/ Coding Horrow: https://blog.codinghorror.com/ Feld Thoughts: http://www.feld.com/ Mattermark: https://mattermark.com/ BEN THOMPSON: https://stratechery.com/ The Angel VC: http://christophjanz.blogspot.com/
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on “Ask HN: What's on your RSS reader?”Submitted Instagram Stabbing Itself By Leaving Twitter Cards Off as a story · 46 points
HN discussionNo matter what kind of business you’re in, it’s wise to diversify your sources of revenue. YT’s ad-focused monetization model disservices a variety of creators for a variety of reasons, many of which are mentioned in this NYTimes article. Fan patronage in the likes of what Vidme (disclaimer: I’m a co-founder) and Patreon are offering help creators diversify their revenue streams and make content for their fans, rath…
Comment linking /2017/03/26/why-were-paying-for-content-these-days/
on “YouTube Stars Feel an Advertising Pinch”Submitted Dos & Don'ts Upon Taking a New Job as a story · 42 points
HN discussionObligatory post to what I consider the best framing of MBAs: "It's fine to get an MBA but don't BE an MBA" by Hunter Walk. http://www.hunterwalk.com/2011/12/its-fine-to-get-mba-but-do...
Comment linking /2011/12/its-fine-to-get-mba-but-dont-be-mba.html
on “Costco does not hire business school graduates”Submitted These engineers quit their jobs to start LeChat as a story · 26 points
HN discussionShervin Pishevar has more info, as he is one of the initiators. Here's more info as well: http://www.hunterwalk.com/2012/04/1-of-nothing-is-something-... --------- If you’d like to know more or understand more please get in touch with us. You can tweet us or you can email us at “info [at] 1percentof [dot] org”. ---------
Comment linking /2012/04/1-of-nothing-is-something-how-angellist.html
on “Introducing 1% of Nothing”Submitted Trying to be the one true social graph is like trying to hold water in your fist as a story · 25 points
HN discussionObligatory link to Hunter Walk's great post on exactly this point: http://hunterwalk.com/2011/12/24/its-fine-to-get-an-mba-but-...
Comment linking /2011/12/24/its-fine-to-get-an-mba-but-dont-be-an-mba/
on “Stanford MBAs Shift Away from Tech”Submitted I Calmed My Imposter Syndrome with These Two Tricks as a story · 22 points
HN discussion> Hire people - not MBAs or PhDs Completely agree. (Full disclosure, I have an MBA) I really like the way Hunter Walk put it in his essay here: http://www.hunterwalk.com/2011/12/its-fine-to-get-mba-but-do... "It's fine to get an MBA, but don't be an MBA"
Comment linking /2011/12/its-fine-to-get-mba-but-dont-be-mba.html
on “Is Now the Time to Hire MBAs?”Submitted CS Degree Won’t Make You A Great Engineer, Your First Job Will as a story · 21 points
HN discussionHunter Walk's blogpost on why this might not be the case: http://hunterwalk.com/2013/08/26/how-facebooks-shared-photo-...
Comment linking /2013/08/26/how-facebooks-shared-photo-albums-impacts-other-startups-hint-doesnt/
on “Facebook kills startups with new collaborative photo album feature ”Submitted Stock Options are like lottery tickets? as a story · 19 points
HN discussionS/he should get the right people and pay them what they're worth. Trying to under-pay people results in sub-par people or good people leaving. 80% of nothing is a lot less valuable than 60% of something successful. Great people are absolutely vital at an early stage. I'm not making things up here, either. Every successful entrepreneur I know agrees with that sentiment, as does the prevailing philosophy of investors[…
Comment linking /2014/11/26/one-founder-told-me-he-wanted-to-overpay-his-employees-so-we-invested/
on “Ask HN: How much equity should I give my new co-founder?”Submitted Google Finds That Successful Teams Are About Norms Not Just Smarts as a story · 17 points
HN discussion1. AVC : http://avc.com/ 2. Feld Thoughts : http://www.feld.com/ 3. Benedict Evans : http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/ 4. andrewchen (Growth at Uber): http://andrewchen.co/ 5. Ben Horowitz: https://a16z.com/author/ben-horowitz/ 6. Accel: http://theaccelblog.squarespace.com/blog/ 7. Both Sides of the Table： https://bothsidesofthetable.com/ 8. cdixon blog： https://medium.com/@cdixon/ 9. Coding Horror： https://blog.c…
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on “Ask HN: What tools do you use to digest news?”Submitted We Don’t Talk Enough About Money in Silicon Valley. No, Really as a story · 14 points
HN discussionhttp://hunterwalk.com/2014/03/08/new-grads-midstage-startups... is a good pointer.
Comment linking /2014/03/08/new-grads-midstage-startups-are-your-best-first-job-in-tech/
on “Ask HN: Which companies are the best places to start my career?”Submitted You Can Always Find an Anonymous Former Employee to Trash the Founder as a story · 14 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hunter Walk: Without a 'safe harbor,' AI will be ruled by incumbents as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted Money Doesn’t Talk. Why Most Startups Aren’t Announcing Their Seed Financings as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted Midstage Startups Are Your Best First Job in Tech as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted Neil Young’s Spotify Protest Isn’t Censorship, It’s Exercising His Free Market as a story · 10 points
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