troutaway123

To be clear: I think they would all likely be the same valuable businesses. My point is that not one of these companies would be funded by YC today.

They succumbed to credentialism. They traded hackers for MBAs. The proverbial John Sculley has fired Steve Jobs and taken over.

> “Can this be a $10 billion plus company?” like Airbnb and Dropbox

I have said it before and I will say it again: this nonsense is going to be the death[1] of YC. Airbnb/DropBox/Stripe/Twitch would not stand a chance getting funding from YC today.

They fell into the same trap that kills innovation like everyone else: as they grew bigger they started taking less risks.

[1] In the Yahoo/IBM sense

Yep ;D

> preserving access to the toolchain which operates trivially with files was worth the additional performance overhead of working with the files

Sounds like they're OK with that.

In any case, couldn't you avoid the kernel trips with some dylib foolery (assuming the toolchain is dynamically linked)?

¿Porque no los dos?

Store the files in a database but expose them via FUSE.

I think they're referring to the incident that caused this RTF to be necessary, but yes, confusing.

Do your eyes still work when you drive through the mud or it's raining hard?

The same logic used by cperciva can be used here:

> If 95% of applications are from pre-revenue companies, then the 50/50 split between acceptees which are with/without revenue would indicate that companies with revenue are 19x more likely to be accepted

Replace revenue with referral.

> Error establishing a database connection

The real reason

> One thing seems increasingly clear to me: this way of building software is not sustainable. What can we do?

Waiting 530 days before upgrading and then only spending a day to upgrade what is effectively three major versions actually seems very reasonable to me.