<story><title>Y Combinator&apos;s Altman: What I Worry About in Business [video]</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2015-09-24/y-contributor-s-altman-what-i-worry-about</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>seiji</author><text>&lt;i&gt;copy any potential idea coming out of the US which I don&amp;#x27;t understand the issue with.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Except, they don&amp;#x27;t just copy the idea, they copy the entire products and companies wholesale (interface, API, UI, user interaction model).  How is that &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; bad?</text></item><item><author>ThomPete</author><text>I am not actually sure why people have so much against the Samwer brothers.&lt;p&gt;Have they done anything particularly despicable?&lt;p&gt;I know their model is to copy any potential idea coming out of the US which I don&amp;#x27;t understand the issue with.&lt;p&gt;One thing they really did well was to have a structure that makes it easy for them to localize any company.&lt;p&gt;I hear the work environment is hard but so is it many other places.&lt;p&gt;Or maybe I am missing your joke?</text></item><item><author>on_</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;videos&amp;#x2F;2015-09-24&amp;#x2F;y-contributor-s-altman-what-i-worry-about&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;videos&amp;#x2F;2015-09-24&amp;#x2F;y-contributo...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ahh yes, Dan Altman, a recent hire at SV clone &amp;quot;Y Contributor&amp;quot;, talks about attention to detail, and working with the Samwer bros.&lt;p&gt;Edit: &amp;lt;&amp;lt; pun intended.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>peterjancelis</author><text>I love how everybody in Silicon Valley claims ideas don&amp;#x27;t matter, only execution does, then hate on the company that is taking that maxim to its ultimate conclusion.</text></comment>
<story><title>Y Combinator&apos;s Altman: What I Worry About in Business [video]</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2015-09-24/y-contributor-s-altman-what-i-worry-about</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>seiji</author><text>&lt;i&gt;copy any potential idea coming out of the US which I don&amp;#x27;t understand the issue with.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Except, they don&amp;#x27;t just copy the idea, they copy the entire products and companies wholesale (interface, API, UI, user interaction model).  How is that &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; bad?</text></item><item><author>ThomPete</author><text>I am not actually sure why people have so much against the Samwer brothers.&lt;p&gt;Have they done anything particularly despicable?&lt;p&gt;I know their model is to copy any potential idea coming out of the US which I don&amp;#x27;t understand the issue with.&lt;p&gt;One thing they really did well was to have a structure that makes it easy for them to localize any company.&lt;p&gt;I hear the work environment is hard but so is it many other places.&lt;p&gt;Or maybe I am missing your joke?</text></item><item><author>on_</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;videos&amp;#x2F;2015-09-24&amp;#x2F;y-contributor-s-altman-what-i-worry-about&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;videos&amp;#x2F;2015-09-24&amp;#x2F;y-contributo...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ahh yes, Dan Altman, a recent hire at SV clone &amp;quot;Y Contributor&amp;quot;, talks about attention to detail, and working with the Samwer bros.&lt;p&gt;Edit: &amp;lt;&amp;lt; pun intended.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lmm</author><text>As a European they&amp;#x27;re adding a lot of value for me, by making useful products available for me.&lt;p&gt;Don&amp;#x27;t like your products being copied? &lt;i&gt;Stop making them US-only&lt;/i&gt;. I would use the &amp;quot;real thing&amp;quot; if I could.</text></comment>