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Re:What I Learned Going Through YC as a 17 Year Old by lhnz on Friday September 04, 2020 @09:17AM (#24374640) 

  > You may be right, but do you have any evidence of
  > this, anecdotal or otherwise?
It's true everywhere else in the world. I think the burder of proof should be the other way around, and instead you should provide evidence this isn't the case within the YC/VC system?
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Re:What I Learned Going Through YC as a 17 Year Old by macspoofing on Friday September 04, 2020 @10:01AM (#24374989)
>It's true everywhere else in the world.

Sure. It's true that your background matters in general. What's not clear, and does put the burden of proof on OP, that the specific background of FAANG experience matters.

>and instead you should provide evidence this isn't the case within the YC/VC system?

As a general rule, it's not easy to prove a negative. What kind of evidence would you expect for YC/VC system that would answer this for you??

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Re:What I Learned Going Through YC as a 17 Year Old by lhnz on Sunday September 06, 2020 @02:54PM (#24393700) 

  > What kind of evidence would you expect for YC/VC system
  > that would answer this for you??
I'm not asking for a negative to be proven. You could define a set of prestigious organisations (FANG, Oxbridge, Ivy League) and you could look at the rate at which investors invest into people from these institutions over people from other institutions.
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