If Elon was his uncle, that would be privilege. But Greg Brockman is a MIT and Harvard grad, and was CTO of Stripe for 5 years (he was employee #4). Yes: smart

If Elon was his uncle, that would be privilege. But Greg Brockman is a MIT and Harvard grad, and was CTO of Stripe for 5 years (he was employee #4). Yes: smart, successful people get dinner together and talk about projects. That's not privilege, that's just how it works. Is Elon only supposed to get dinner with a randomly selected person every night? (For what it's worth, I believe nobody has done as much to open up Silicon Valley to anyone, regardless of connections, as YC has. Between Sam and Stripe, he was there due to YC connections.)