Y Combinator often backs startups that duplicate other YC companies, data shows

Re:Y Combinator often backs startups that duplicate other YC... by fsckboy on Tuesday November 26, 2024 @12:35PM (#42247810)

>Steve Jobs or maybe just Apple used to pit teams against each other to develop a solution to a problem and then pick the strongest of the two.

probably that's Apple. Steve Jobs is more famous for jumping from the failing project (Lisa) onto the winning team (Macintosh)

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Re:Y Combinator often backs startups that duplicate other YC... by Clubber on Tuesday November 26, 2024 @10:16PM (#42252561)

Macintosh was, by all financial accounts, a failure; at least the first iteration. That's what got him fired.

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Re:Y Combinator often backs startups that duplicate other YC... by fsckboy on Wednesday November 27, 2024 @12:16AM (#42253151)

if they were firing him for failures, he would already have been fired for Apple 3 and then Lisa

the Apple /// shocked people when announced, instead of being a 6809 or 68000, it was... two 6502's? what? who does that

but you're making the same point, he was casting about for success, not predicting the future.

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