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Re:Y Combinator has lost its soul: A YC founder's perspective by jedberg on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @01:15PM (#23919249)
> Reddit would have been one of the most successful YC companies of all time, except for that they basically had to shut down because they couldn't raise money.

I can't give details, but I can tell you that the $80K would not have made a difference. What would have made a difference was a small seed of a few million, which YC is pretty good at getting for companies these days.

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Re:Y Combinator has lost its soul: A YC founder's perspective by Alex3917 on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @02:41PM (#23920195)
Yeah I mean in that specific example, it only works if you assume that Reddit would have had an extra few months to get more traction before raising the one round that they raised.
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