“It is very hard to run YC or run a startup or create an actual thing of value in the world. It is very easy to go take shots on Twitter and make a sarcastic comment and get a lot of likes and feel like you're doing something really important and sticking it to the man. … And it will poison your soul.”

…the thing that I realized eventually, and take from this whatever you want, is it is very hard to run YC or run a startup or create an actual thing of value in the world. It is very easy to go take shots on Twitter and make a sarcastic comment and get a lot of likes and feel like you're doing something really important and sticking it to the man and being like, Gary, haha, I got you, you idiot. And it will poison your soul. It is a morally bankrupt thing to do. It is, and it's like bad in a very insidious way. Like, I totally get blowing off steam and having fun, but don't like hold yourself to a higher bar than this. Don't. It's so easy to take shots at people that are trying to do hard things and trying to build companies. And you'll see some like, you know, kid with a bad startup idea trying to get excited about…