YC: Requests for Startups

> Every week the YC Group Partners meet and discuss the current batch. One common area of discussion is ideas — what kind of ideas are these founders having the best luck with? Which ones are they pivoting away from?

How about: do you have any path to profitability, or you're still on the path to lose hundreds of millions of dollars per year or get sold to the highest bidder?

YC is about making something users want. That's the trailhead for all paths to profitability. So there's no conflict here.

If you haven't made anything users want, then you might need to change your idea, and that's what that sentence is referring to.

> YC is about making something users want.

Okay, let's assume that is true

> That's the trailhead for all paths to profitability.

You can open a list of YC's companies, and then find profitable ones. An eye opener.

For those who are profitable now, you can also look at how long they have existed, how long they have been profitable, and how long it will take them to break even considering those losses.