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Havoc ◴[] No.44462964[source]
To a casual outside observer the quality of the companies YC invests in seems to have absolutely cratered. Have they just given up on vetting and switched to a throw money at everything approach?
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seunosewa ◴[] No.44463085[source]
My feeling is that they are investing in founders who they find impressive who are working in AI. Not so much in the uniqueness of their ideas.
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diggan ◴[] No.44463207[source]
Isn't that a very outspoken objective of YC, to fund people, not ideas? Long time ago I caught up to what YC is doing, but even when I first joined HN back in like 2013 I think the whole "Fund people, not ideas" shtick was already explicitly what they were doing, unless I remember wrong.
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danybittel ◴[] No.44463291[source]
Isn't "fund people" just hiring without the extra steps?
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1. diggan ◴[] No.44463893{3}[source]
If you're constraining them to work on specific things, then yes. Otherwise no :)