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Re:Y Combinator Traded Prestige for Growth by closeparen on Monday September 30, 2024 @02:43PM (#41700531)
YC pretty openly and deliberately tries to convince prospective and actual Big Tech employees who are curious or on the fence to quit and do a startup already. There's a great Startup School video about this [0]. I think the critics are right about "doing a startup" and chasing an exit having become an equally normal, precedented, socially-supported path as joining a big company and chasing promotions. But I'd be surprised if YC itself would characterize that as failure.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sM2reZib2RY

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Re:Y Combinator Traded Prestige for Growth by Apocryphon on Monday September 30, 2024 @02:55PM (#41700655)
HN is a lot more jaded towards startups and founders’ games these days. Back in late 2019 there was this thread about a pre-YC Garry Tan video where the tone of the discussion was fiercely against working for startups, saying it was better to join FAANG or start your own company instead:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21865065

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