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I'm wondering, will YC's current setup scale with the increase in numbers? As in, will new YC companies have less time with staff, etc..? How do you plan to co

• pg 16y ago
  I think the reason people are surprised that we fund so many startups compared to other YC-like organizations is that I work full time on this, whereas at nearly all (perhaps all) the others, the startups are advised by a consortium of people doing it part time. When you're doing it full time, it's no problem to advise, say, 25 new startups at once. At least once you have some practice. Earlier this year we hired Harj Taggar who also works full time advising startups. Since this kind of work scales nearly linearly, we're about as busy as one person would be advising 18, which was no problem at all.
  • netcan 16y ago
    Any idea what you would need to do differently to fund, say, 250?
    • pg 16y ago
      That is a type of question we think about a lot. But we know that our guesses are likely to be pretty bogus. We approach scaling YC the way you would approach scaling software. And the way scaling works is that you can never be sure what the bottlenecks are, or how you're going to get around them, till you hit them. So it's interesting to speculate about, but not useful except in a mind-opening way.
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