Y Combinator has lost its soul: A YC founder's perspective

Re:Y Combinator has lost its soul: A YC founder's perspective by ballenf on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @03:51PM (#23920846)

I think it's perfectly ok that if I save and work that my kids will have a leg up on my peers' kids who don't do the same.

Don't we want, as a society, to encourage parents to do these things for their kids? Isn't that a net win for society as a whole?

The alternative would require a near 100% estate/death tax, wouldn't it?

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Re:Y Combinator has lost its soul: A YC founder's perspective by doorstar on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @04:44PM (#23921362)

Don't misunderstand me, the parents did nothing wrong.

Their problem was their mental model where their child's success was entirely due to their child's talents and drive, and that since they ( the parents ) had not provided any seed money, they had nothing to do with their child's success.

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Re:Y Combinator has lost its soul: A YC founder's perspective by adnzzzzZ on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @04:59PM (#23921516)

In a way that's true though, because the majority of kids who have that soft-landing available don't go on to achieve any kind of success like that.

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Re:Y Combinator has lost its soul: A YC founder's perspective by _jahh on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @10:58PM (#23923766)

the point is that the vast majority of people able to have that sort of success do have the soft landing and it is that advantage that enables them to create the successes they do.

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