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Yeah I know what they do and know a few other people working on data annotation tools for autonomous vehicles. All of the data annotation startups pivoted to th

by m_ke 7y ago

Yeah I know what they do and know a few other people working on data annotation tools for autonomous vehicles. All of the data annotation startups pivoted to that space because of the money involved. I just used them as an example because they were the first recent YC company that came to mind that's working on enterprise tools and has a landing page full of logos.

OnlineGladiator 7y ago
Fair point. Sorry if I came across as argumentative - I just thought it wasn't the best example. Regarding your overall point of YC having a network effect - not only is it true, it's part of their thesis for scaling up YC as much as possible. YC made a big push when Sam Altman became president (he's now heading up OpenAI) to try to grow YC as much as possible. This was about 5 years ago. The real question is how will the network effects weather the storm of a recession, which is untested (YC really started right around the last recession). Are they inside their own echo chamber? Are they actually supporting self-sustaining businesses? Will the network become big enough that it can sustain many of its businesses? I'm curious to see how the tech startup scene shakes out with the next recession. Let's just say I'm not considered an optimist.