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Kyle Tibbitts

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Kyle Tibbitts's personal blog at kyletibbitts.com covers startups and business. Since 2019, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “Rate-of-learning: the most valuable startup compensation”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.

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3mentions?
3HN people?
2019–2021first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2019

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Cited in an HN thread about whether working for a startup makes sense. The post argues that rate of learning is the most valuable startup compensation, and the comment uses that point as its own claim.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Rate-of-learning: the most valuable startup compensation
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-03-26

What Hacker News says?

  1. Rate-of-learning: the most valuable startup compensation: https://kyletibbitts.com/rate-of-learning-the-most-valuable-... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13575706

    Comment linking /rate-of-learning-the-most-valuable-startup-compensation-56dddc17fa42

    on “Working for a startup makes less sense, unless you are into the mission”
  2. Submitted Rate-of-learning: the most valuable startup compensation as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Why customer-first companies ultimately win as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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