Re:Y Combinator Traded Prestige for Growth
by doctorpangloss on Monday September 30, 2024 @12:15PM
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My life has never been enriched by the angry posts of rejects.
Everyone who has achieved “make the world a better place” took decades to arrive there.
YC is sincere. If you wanna find flaws, don’t focus on impossible goals for accelerators like changing the world. Look at the differences between the Harvard people they do and do not accept, or how they choose among highly qualified, not unqualified, people: YC is a product of its time, when suddenly a lot of people who “look” like they are good at math happened to be too burnt out for medicine, and stock trading on apps took off. Think deeply about what I am saying, think about your cohort, what it literally looks like, and it should be obvious why so many people feel pissed about it, even if they can’t express it well.
Everyone who has achieved “make the world a better place” took decades to arrive there.
YC is sincere. If you wanna find flaws, don’t focus on impossible goals for accelerators like changing the world. Look at the differences between the Harvard people they do and do not accept, or how they choose among highly qualified, not unqualified, people: YC is a product of its time, when suddenly a lot of people who “look” like they are good at math happened to be too burnt out for medicine, and stock trading on apps took off. Think deeply about what I am saying, think about your cohort, what it literally looks like, and it should be obvious why so many people feel pissed about it, even if they can’t express it well.