How to not get rejected from YC's Early AI interview batch

Re:How to not get rejected from YC's Early AI interview batch by inimino on Sunday July 30, 2023 @08:43PM (#36937657)

The observation that YC companies tend to share a common shape is a pretty easy one to make. Who gets accepted or not is clearly a matter of fit and equally clearly has strong random chance effects.

Analyzing why the fit wasn't there is interesting. Your framing as "should have been accepted" (???) seems like you're thinking about this in a very different way from how it works.

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Re:How to not get rejected from YC's Early AI interview batch by johntiger1 on Sunday July 30, 2023 @10:19PM (#36938132)

Yep, glad you got the point. YC isn't some test where "passing" is the goal. As trite as it sounds, you are evaluating them as an accelerator as much as they are evaluating you as a startup - if the fit isn't there, either the startup changes itself or you move on. No big deal either way.

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Re:How to not get rejected from YC's Early AI interview batch by inimino on Monday July 31, 2023 @01:38AM (#36939152)

This is exactly right, not sure why you are getting downvoted. YC wouldn't work as an accelerator if there wasn't some pattern to their successes.

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