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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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