I spent a lot of time getting peoples' takes on their yc experiences back in like 2011. What I found is that no one really says "yc was bad for us". Even compan

I spent a lot of time getting peoples' takes on their yc experiences back in like 2011. What I found is that no one really says "yc was bad for us". Even companies that didn't survive got immediate press credibility, money, etc. If you think about it, the worst case for a company that goes through yc is that it's neutral. They can't really hurt anything — when companies fail (or struggle) it's never because of yc. There are hundreds of reasons companies fail. So the tl;dr; is that people probably won't ever say "yc was bad for us", and companies that come out doing well won't think "yc wasn't great for us".