Interesting. I once talked to an investor (not YC) and they asked me what I would do if the product failed. I said one thing I can do is pivot. And they literally responded with "we don't invest in founders who think about pivoting"
> YC also needs to pivot it's marketing to compete with a16z Speedrun and PeakXV Surge
Maybe. A write up about the new design would be cool I think
> YC has always been founder first.
Internally yes there is a "founder community". But publicly I would argue it was product-first.
If you want to go down the terminology nerd rabbit hole, which I think is the correct thing to do, it's not even called Arabic language, it's called The Un-ambiguous Arabic Tongue (my translation of اللسان العربي المبين). Language (which comes from the word لغة) is a bad word, it means "idle chatter". Tongue is the correct term for someone who knows what they're talking about. Modern Arabic (even what is referred to as Classical Arabic) is a deviation from The Un-ambiguous Arabic Tongue. A lot of ignorant people think that the Quran is poetry when in fact it is in The Un-ambiguous Arabic Tongue, which again many people don't know (or intentionally hide!). The Arabs who spoke that tongue eloquently back then denounced poetry and poets (that's why when they wanted to curse at the prophets they called the prophets "crazy poets". Read the Quran for reference) To them poets are crazy, and the Quran was chosen by Allah to come down in that specific tongue, hence the Quran also denounces poetry.
It's still better than believing we were apes who didn't know how to speak then we invented languages all the way to Chinese. One of us has to be ignorant that's for sure.
I think companies hired too many Rust engineers, and now those engineers are writing technical blogs and making product decisions. We're seeing a lot of those everyday on HN first page