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Have you considered how this will impact people who are running a business with 50+ employees 10000km and 9hours time zones away from the Bay Area? As it is, i

Have you considered how this will impact people who are running a business with 50+ employees 10000km and 9hours time zones away from the Bay Area? As it is, it's definitely optimized for US companies who can afford to fly in for the weekly dinners without allowing their companies suffer from their 3 month absence.

jacquesm 9y ago
YC is US centric, and more specifically SV centric. If you are not in a position to benefit from this that will no doubt skew the situation even further away from a level playing field but that is how the rest of the world feels anyway. All attempts to duplicate Silicon Valley to date have failed.
- peterburkimsher 9y ago
  Taiwan has plenty of talented people [1] [2], but there aren't as many accelerators like YC over here. If any investors are disillusioned with living in the US, you're welcome to visit Taiwan! [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16271384 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16271384 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16272114 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16272114
TheAdamAndChe 9y ago
It sounds like you're upset about capital inequality around the world, which is fair. YC abstaining from taking advantage of such knowledge concentration for ideological reasons, though, would not help global inequality. All that would happen is that YC would be usurped by another organization that isn't afraid of such issues. Problems like income and capital inequality are definitely growing issues in our country and world, but they probably won't be solved by individual companies within a capitalistic society.
- OoTheNigerian 9y ago
  Upset? Ha! Why would I be? I just asked what I think to be a sensible question. How will those far away cope? Or how does YC expect them to cope? Considering they are running big businesses full time and cannot miss one of the weekly dinners. It's OK if it's US centric. And it's OK if it has not been considered. PS: That was quite a leap you took though. Olympic level. ;)

jacquesm 9y ago

YC is US centric, and more specifically SV centric. If you are not in a position to benefit from this that will no doubt skew the situation even further away from a level playing field but that is how the rest of the world feels anyway. All attempts to duplicate Silicon Valley to date have failed.

peterburkimsher 9y ago
Taiwan has plenty of talented people [1] [2], but there aren't as many accelerators like YC over here. If any investors are disillusioned with living in the US, you're welcome to visit Taiwan! [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16271384 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16271384 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16272114 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16272114

TheAdamAndChe 9y ago

It sounds like you're upset about capital inequality around the world, which is fair. YC abstaining from taking advantage of such knowledge concentration for ideological reasons, though, would not help global inequality. All that would happen is that YC would be usurped by another organization that isn't afraid of such issues. Problems like income and capital inequality are definitely growing issues in our country and world, but they probably won't be solved by individual companies within a capitalistic society.

OoTheNigerian 9y ago
Upset? Ha! Why would I be? I just asked what I think to be a sensible question. How will those far away cope? Or how does YC expect them to cope? Considering they are running big businesses full time and cannot miss one of the weekly dinners. It's OK if it's US centric. And it's OK if it has not been considered. PS: That was quite a leap you took though. Olympic level. ;)