YC: Requests for Startups

Today I learned that YC not only funds military companies, but encourages new startups to focus on killing machines and spying. And to point to the spy firm Palantir as an example of a model company shows how morally bankrupt YC truly is. Anything for a buck, right? All this while those same defense firms are currently making tens of billions of dollars supplying hardware to kill hundreds of civilians a day right this very instant.

Make bombs people want, I see.

See “American Dynamism”

https://a16z.com/american-dynamism/

It’s a moral stance, explicitly

The founders that work in defense are mission driven. they see nation-state preservation as a moral issue.

They would fail to “make a buck” if that was their only goal, as is the case in most industries/sectors

Respectfully, I’d encourage you to review the HN guidelines. Skepticism is welcome here, but even cursory research will show that the founders in defense have deeply personal reasons for building what they do.

That closing line is hilarious tho