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Was airbnb a month away from being evicted or a month away from asking their parents for another deposit?

Lots of rich kids play at being poor all the while knowing they can call home at any point.

What kind of bias do you need to get 10% Ivy Leaguers, given that they make up like 0.01% of the population?

Not a defense so much as an admission that the parent comment is correct.

Yeah something like 1% have wealthy families and something like 99% don't. YC has always been a program by the upper class and for the upper class.

There's a reason YC doesn't publish economic diversity stats. It would be an indictment of their systemic bias.

You're not better than the all of the 99 other people that didn't go to Yale/YC, you're just lucky that you were granted help instead of them.

And yet it never seems to occur to the "elite" YC team that any of them could've been born on the outside of this class system.

YC, like most class-based institutions, sits on a fortunate while millions are starved for opportunity. The people that receive its help are those that need it least.

Someone with a genuine underdog story needs to create YCs successor. YC is too much the "Harvard of accelerators."