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Re:The House Y Combinator Should Have Built by nchuhoai on Wednesday February 29, 2012 @08:31PM (#3650567)
I dont think you should provide housing, however I do believe it would be beneficial if there would be the opportunity for new companies/teams to live with each other if they choose so. Clearly, for some people, that is contraproductive (you mentioned Larry and Sergey), however I think for especially smaller and newer teams, having this community that lives and works together can be great.

In some senses, it is like on and off campus housing: Sure for some people off campus is less of a distraction, cheaper or just totally sufficient, but it is arguable that the on-campus philosophy of American colleges has contributed to Americas success.

Re:The House Y Combinator Should Have Built by sukuriant on Wednesday February 29, 2012 @09:06PM (#3650644)
I do believe it would be beneficial if there would be the opportunity for new companies/teams to live with each other if they choose so

What's stopping them from doing so?

Re:The House Y Combinator Should Have Built by pg on Wednesday February 29, 2012 @11:26PM (#3650905)
They often do in fact.
Re:The House Y Combinator Should Have Built by nchuhoai on Thursday March 01, 2012 @01:28AM (#3651172)
I'm not saying they aren't, but I wonder whether it would be helpful to facilitate it from YC's perspective (granted, I do not know what accepted candidates actually do)