Seconded, in fact I'll go one step further.
YC has drastically increased the number of partners to meet the demand of a growing batch size. I've seen partners do more publicly for new garage startups (new YC companies) being strongarmed by large companies. Totally no surprises here.
Agreed. Sam and all the other YC partners will go out of their way to help, it's just often not public.
Re:Cruise
by j_hammond_ingen on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @07:54PM
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This is interesting to hear. As an aside, my company is a Techstars company and we have had the exact opposite experience in terms of getting the attention and/or help of the folks that run the organization. Sigh that we didn't apply to YC...
Just curious: why didn't you apply to YC?
TS seems generously like the best B-list incubator. I've never understand the pull, given that they have none of the status and thought leadership demonstrated so regularly by YC.
First, you are right - every YC partner has very limited time, and if you expect to get a lot of it for anything and everything you will be disappointed. YC wouldn't scale that way, and it would be a waste of the partners' time.
That said, if you ever NEED a partners time, they will bend over backwards to make it happen, regardless of whether you just sold for $1b, were personal friends with them, or whatever else.