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Just out of curiosity, how does YC internally determine startup quality (before the rest of the world recognizes it)?

• _sentient 11y ago
  Probably a blend of growth metrics, capital raised, and some qualitative stuff.
• brudgers 11y ago
  My understanding is that YC focuses on people more than ideas...e.g. the first version of JustinTV was a live stream of someone's life. Twitch was many years later.