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YC seems to be trying to reach into a number of different areas lately. Maybe they find that they don't have enough innovation walking through their door anymo

YC seems to be trying to reach into a number of different areas lately. Maybe they find that they don't have enough innovation walking through their door anymore. Or that they need to go the extra mile to push things forward themselves.

tacos 10y ago
I'm bored out of my mind reading HN lately and I'd hope they are, too. (That ad today for the all-girl we-got-board-games thing was just... painful.) So why not keep busy while they wait for the next wave to form? It's a great time to grow other branches.
- forgetsusername 10y ago
  >That ad today for the all-girl we-got-board-games thing was just... painful. To what are you referencing here? I must have missed this story.
  - tacos 10y ago
    "Our backend runs on EBS." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11675171 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11675171
    - uola 10y ago
      That's actually far more relevant than a lot of YC startups. Custom packaging is a big trend in Asia and far more evolved than in the west.
alain94040 10y ago
I'll take a wild uneducated guess and guess that they are trying to find the next frontier in "idea incubation" while their current product (YC) is on top of its game. So as to not be "disrupted" by whatever is going to replace YC's idea factory, years from now. The iPhone to their current iPod. In that context, advanced research makes sense.