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> This is entirely my fault, and I take all the blame for that.

You shouldn't be blaming yourself, it was the best thing to do. Some people may have been confused over who the "good guys" were in this mess. By taking over all these channels you made everything perfectly clear. No amount of arguing could have made things clearer than your actions.



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>I demonstrated outstanding leadership and blamed him without any further evidence.

At least the Author seems to know it wasn't OK.


>I feel he should share some of the blame

And he tried to get it back immediately. Would you blame him for that too?


> "Clinton should get most of the blame."

I apologize, this was not my intent.


>though was not having anyone else to blame.

Oh, he definitely had people to blame, like the FTX lawyers, it’s just that he got caught lying or dancing around the truth so frequently that nobody would believe him.


> I need to see these "I take full responsibility" people actually punished.

Yeah, I think by "responsibility" he means "profit". He takes full profit of the decisions that took them there.


> Don't be sorry, deliver on your responsibility

And it sounds like that's exactly what he plans on doing, should there be extended problems (as much as it pains me to defend him)


He did not say, "It is my fault." He said, "I take full responsibility." The question stands: what does that mean?

> It’s extremely obvious who was responsible.

Who?


> It wasn't the event that made him look bad, it was his actions.

It was what somebody else claimed his actions were.


Have a link handy? I can't find it. My memory was he's said a lot of things like "we messed up" and "we could have handled it better". Nothing that says he personally is responsible.

To be fair, he wasn’t blaming anyone per se. He took responsibility for his own thoughts.

"I take full responsibility"

Translates to "I accept it's my fault but I am still going to sack you."


I'm curious how that read as blame to you? Because it read like a good and reasonable decision that he attributed to an important person at YC.

"So it's his fault that all that happened to him?" No - he's saying that acting like everything is his responsibility and that believing that only his actions care improve things is much more likely to lead to actual improvement than feeling like a victim.

Agree on taking responsibility. There are a lot of excuses he could have made: economy, bad PR firm, etc. By taking blame he can now move on to fix things.

No disagreement at all... I just wanted to let those know that this (at least, thus far) wasn't his fault, for those who might not have known.

I"m sure there will be plenty to hold him accountable for in the future, though there is indeed a genuine opportunity here for him to right a potential wrong.


He is not to blame at all. He made a good faith effort to communicate which did not work and openly reasoned about the challenges of a relatively new platform that many people are still trying to make the best use of. I'm glad he posted.

> Can you blame him?

Yes, chiefly so.


> Then most of it got tossed

Surely someone "took responsibility" for that one

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