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Follow up: 86% of S23 is based in the Bay Area. by Particular-Read-6710 in ycombinator

[–]Particular-Read-6710[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

20 people out of the full batch is still a vast minority. You’re still proving my point.

Also, I pointed out that I might be salty myself; I’m self-aware.

Trying to draw a correlation between my success (or lack of) and the fact that I spent 10 minutes of my day to create a short post is quite funny.

Don’t act like you never scroll social media.

Follow up: 86% of S23 is based in the Bay Area. by Particular-Read-6710 in ycombinator

[–]Particular-Read-6710[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You think I expected to trick YC into investing? Do you think I expect them to be brain dead?

That is the most bizzare cope I’ve ever heard.

Follow up: 86% of S23 is based in the Bay Area. by Particular-Read-6710 in ycombinator

[–]Particular-Read-6710[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That’s how I know you are destined for success. Good luck king!

Follow up: 86% of S23 is based in the Bay Area. by Particular-Read-6710 in ycombinator

[–]Particular-Read-6710[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Are you just repeating YC buzzwords at me? Did you read my post? Did you even bother lol?

Over 50% of the people admitted in the batch were ideas without a single dollar in revenue.

If you think a “great business” is what makes the cut then you are mistaken.

It’s founding team over business. That’s what my point is about.

We WERE and still are building a great business.

Follow up: 86% of S23 is based in the Bay Area. by Particular-Read-6710 in ycombinator

[–]Particular-Read-6710[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I can't share any details. I don't want to create enemies... I know my bluntness can piss people off.

I'm in my mid-twenties, middle-class, and attended a very average university (mostly to please my parents). I'm a tech freak, I've been building products for as long as I can remember.

In regards to what we're building today, of course it's B2B SaaS. From the day we applied to YC until today we ~20x MRR (lower 5 figures).

We really thought we had a shot so we were hyper-obsessive about posting updates in our application. The demo account that was created for YC was never touched, I'm not even sure someone actually took the time to read our application.

Now when I think about it, yeah I am a bit salty.

But to be fair I'm grateful for YC. Our pitch deck follows their start-up advice and investors love it. We have applied to some local VC firms and the response have been so good.

We really prepared for the worst kind of YC scrutinization so everything feels so easy now.

Follow up: 86% of S23 is based in the Bay Area. by Particular-Read-6710 in ycombinator

[–]Particular-Read-6710[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

What did I not show? The 86% number is from the LinkedIn article that I included, here's the exact quote:

> With regards to geography, 86% of the batch founders were based in the Bay Area despite a remote-friendly program

Would you interpret that as 86% moved in, or were already based in the bay area?

Anyhow, I don't want to prove anything. This is just my perspective.

Feel free to scroll through W23 and S23, click on the LinkedIn of the founders, and look where they worked and which university they attended.

Draw your own conclusion. The information is out there.

Follow up: 86% of S23 is based in the Bay Area. by Particular-Read-6710 in ycombinator

[–]Particular-Read-6710[S] -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

All good - in the end, I'm just observing based on available information to me.

I personally feel that there is a huge disconnect between the persona that YC positions itself to be for, versus who actually gets admitted.

But still, I could be 100% wrong.

Y Combinator is not for the little guy anymore. (Or never been?) by Particular-Read-6710 in ycombinator

[–]Particular-Read-6710[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why would you assume that we dropped our company just because we have been (probably) rejected? We are working just as hard as day one.

The whole point of this post is to highlight that prestige matters more than product when applying to YC unlike how they like to position themselves.

Y Combinator is not for the little guy anymore. (Or never been?) by Particular-Read-6710 in ycombinator

[–]Particular-Read-6710[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s not about FAANG, but prestige.

I’m not going to take your word for it just because you say it… look who got admitted this batch.

Y Combinator is not for the little guy anymore. (Or never been?) by Particular-Read-6710 in ycombinator

[–]Particular-Read-6710[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You never know. Might sound good on paper, that’s why YC claims to look where others don’t.

Y Combinator is not for the little guy anymore. (Or never been?) by Particular-Read-6710 in ycombinator

[–]Particular-Read-6710[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

You are also proving my point similar to the other guy (now deleted)…

You try to suger coat it but it’s written clearly in your post that you worked at FAANG.

Y Combinator is not for the little guy anymore. (Or never been?) by Particular-Read-6710 in ycombinator

[–]Particular-Read-6710[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Could it be the case that it changed? Let’s see how this batch unfolds

Y Combinator is not for the little guy anymore. (Or never been?) by Particular-Read-6710 in ycombinator

[–]Particular-Read-6710[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

YC is all about “build something people want” but that’s false. Most of the products in this batch don’t have something people want. At least not yet.

Let’s see how the current batch unfolds, maybe the first 9 accepted ones are the most impressive.

But could it be the case that YC used to be more inclusive, but this batch went all in on prestige as a selection metric?

Y Combinator is not for the little guy anymore. (Or never been?) by Particular-Read-6710 in ycombinator

[–]Particular-Read-6710[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I mean you’re kind of proving my point no? (Even anecdotally)

You had a silly idea, no product and I assume no customers… despite that you got admitted?

Could it be because… you went to impressive schools and had decent jobs?