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If YC selects based on people and not ideas, what changes between applications? Does the submitter grow in some meaningful way, and that sticks out?
by danilocampos 16y ago
If YC selects based on people and not ideas, what changes between applications? Does the submitter grow in some meaningful way, and that sticks out?
- pg 16y agoThere are multiple explanations. We care more about people than ideas, but we don't care zero about ideas. Especially if a startup is passionately committed to what seems a bad idea; we'll usually reject them no matter how good the people are. When people reapply it's often with different teams. I think all 3 cases I mentioned did. People do change somewhat between applications. Someone who's only 25 gets 4% more experience each year. And also, as we say in the email when we turn people down, we're often simply wrong.