alums

We acquired the talent of quite a few Carwoo (YCS09) alums a little over a year ago.

It put them in a tough position of angering their alums to get their money.

The latter fits the bill of Tan's description of corporatism here, but Google's company alums have started more start ups post Google.

In my experience talking with Stanford alums and just walking around the Stanford campus most people there appear to be already rich.

Quite significant that Bell Labs Unix alums don't want to put up with C any more and actively purge it from their tree?

You can, of course, and plenty of companies have come from Apple alums.

I was very surprised to learn from two Stanford CS alums that functional programming was not a requirement in that program.

Plus, other YC companies alums form a very strong network which help you out when you need it.

Posting a list of accomplished alums is nothing special, right?

Maybe find alums to run a mock interview?

The MIT alums talk about their current jobs.

I think this misunderstanding is a result of HN's evolving audience, which used to be dominated by YC alums or people who knew YC alums, but is now less cohesive.

As someone at Dropbox (full of MIT alums) once told me: "just because you graduated from MIT doesn't mean you're good"

While reading the article I thought to myself, "I guess OQO is ancient history by now." I know at least two founders were Apple alums.

(Coincidentally, smart thermostat maker Nest, the most prominent startup hatched by Apple alums, was acquired by Google last year.) " They did.

There are now over a thousand YC alums who prove you don't need it." Like Instacart (Amazon), Parse (Google), or Zenter (Amazon & GoDaddy)?

Also I'm told that YC-Alums can see each other's user name on HN as a particular color and non-YC-Alums don't see this.