My suspicious is that this is satire, but I'll pretend it's not and if so I like your gusto for publicly criticizing YC, even if I disagree with nearly all your

My suspicious is that this is satire, but I'll pretend it's not and if so I like your gusto for publicly criticizing YC, even if I disagree with nearly all your points. I personally think YC has gotten way better over the years, but fun to contrarian read opinions. Point #3 doesn't seem to be talked about in this thread yet, so let me bring it up: > Free SaaS and Dev tools...IMO YC should ban them YC's #1 investment of all time (https://www.ycombinator.com/topcompanies/ https://www.ycombinator.com/topcompanies/) is a SaaS/dev tools company (Stripe), and nearly 50% of their top 20 fit this category. Also, ViaWeb fits that category as well. Are you suggesting they should stop investing in their most successful category, the category they know best?