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> Finally, perhaps he feels that by others putting money into what YC might consider a lost cause those others will eventually realize what YC realized? It's h
by chaostheory 9y ago
> Finally, perhaps he feels that by others putting money into what YC might consider a lost cause those others will eventually realize what YC realized?
It's hard for 3rd parties to discern this, when YC has given the very companies being criticized seed money. Pair that with the competitiveness between angels and VCs, plus FOMO; and it gets even harder.
- chiefalchemist 9y agoI was trying to say that if some post-YC VC comes up short he/she might say "WTF does YC know..." Hear that often enough and loud enough and the shine that is YC's will be less. Clearly YC / Sam benefits from being up the food chain not down it.