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Re:Y Combinator Traded Prestige for Growth by pj_mukh on Monday September 30, 2024 @11:54AM (#41698615)
"did some clunky work on it. That was their entry to YC"

For more context, YC doesn't judge your code, never has. It was never a code quality competition. Orthogonally, they do judge the results (user metrics).

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Re:Y Combinator Traded Prestige for Growth by FactKnower69 on Monday September 30, 2024 @01:50PM (#41699984)
>For more context, YC doesn't judge your code, never has. It was never a code quality competition.

it shows

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Re:Y Combinator Traded Prestige for Growth by pj_mukh on Monday September 30, 2024 @02:01PM (#41700101)
Yea it does! [1].

[1]: https://jaredheyman.medium.com/on-the-176-annual-return-of-a...

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Re:Y Combinator Traded Prestige for Growth by moomin on Monday September 30, 2024 @01:52PM (#41700006)
Yeah, but they used to care about your moat and “Did some easily replicable work on a product anyone can duplicate.” ain’t it.
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Re:Y Combinator Traded Prestige for Growth by pj_mukh on Monday September 30, 2024 @01:56PM (#41700053)
Did they? YC regularly funded competitors. This was always true. Fundamentally, YC is betting on founders. They're optimizing for founders who can move fast enough to find a moat before they die, that's it.

They fund competitors because most YC companies usually pivot out anyway.

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