I personally know of two teams who were rejected from YC and ended up not working on the startup because of it. I know of one other that probably would have fa

I personally know of two teams who were rejected from YC and ended up not working on the startup because of it. I know of one other that probably would have fallen apart had they not been accepted. It is really disingenuous on their part. There is no foolproof way to filter it, though an suggestion would be that those with little or no product would be more likely to throw everything away upon rejection.