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YC: Requests for Startups

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514 points sarimkx | 2 comments | 14 Feb 24 16:31 UTC | HN request time: 0.407s | 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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1. dang ◴[14 Feb 24 19:23 UTC] No.39373993[source]▶
YC's idea is to optimize for helping founders. That means supporting what the founders want If they don't want to exit, YC's not going to pressure them.

This works out well because it's the global optimum. YC has much more success optimizing for helping founders than it would by trying to squeeze individual lemons.

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2. gavinhoward ◴[14 Feb 24 19:31 UTC] No.39374074[source]▶
I hope that is true, and a sibling comment to yours suggests it is.

That said, that sibling comnent suggests that YC is for potential unicorns, and I don't want that either. So YC is not for me.

Though I will say nothing wrong with unicorns per se.