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YC: Requests for Startups

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514 points sarimkx | 1 comments | 14 Feb 24 16:31 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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gavinhoward ◴[14 Feb 24 17:36 UTC] No.39372613[source]▶
I am building a company that falls under two categories (commercial Open Source and developer tools based on internal tools), but I would never take YC money for it.

Because of that stake, they want an "exit" in some form, and the drive to that exit will pave the road to user-hostile software and make it the path of least resistance.

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hipadev23 ◴[14 Feb 24 17:42 UTC] No.39372687[source]▶
> Because of that stake, they want an "exit" in some form

Every single entity who invests in your company wants an exit.

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gavinhoward ◴[14 Feb 24 17:44 UTC] No.39372717[source]▶
You are absolutely right.

I am bootstrapping. I own 100% of the company.

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herpdyderp ◴[14 Feb 24 17:52 UTC] No.39372821[source]▶
Morally I agree with you.

My wallet unfortunately does not.

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1. gavinhoward ◴[14 Feb 24 17:57 UTC] No.39372888[source]▶
And I don't blame you!

Bootstrapping is hard, and I know that I am lucky to be able to...thus far.

If the world would still be net better off with the VC-backed software, and it wouldn't get made any other way, I don't think it would be immoral to take it, so long as effort is made to follow the harder path.