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Re:The reputation economy is turning us into conformists (20... by onion2k on Monday October 04, 2021 @11:12AM (#28747737)
If there's an actual blacklist where YC employees can just arbitrarily ban founders from working with certain companies that's quite surprising and maybe pretty bad for YC's reputation.

If you mean YC has a strong community of founders who share war stories of how people and companies were difficult to work with, and the other YC founders pay attention to those stories though, well, that's not a blacklist.

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Re:The reputation economy is turning us into conformists (20... by ta1234567890 on Monday October 04, 2021 @11:44AM (#28748166)
There’s both.

About the blacklist, I don’t know exactly how it works, who specifically has access to it or who can add entries to it, but I know it exists, I know people who have been affected by it, know people who have been told explicitly about it and know that at least some partners have access to it.

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