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Outlier successes are rarely because of one factor. YC was started in Boston and worked well there. They moved to the SFBA because they wanted to scale it up a
by thesausageking 6y ago
Outlier successes are rarely because of one factor.
YC was started in Boston and worked well there. They moved to the SFBA because they wanted to scale it up and knew if they didn't, someone else would do there.
Had they stayed in Boston, it likely would've continued to be successful but would not have had the enormous impact it has had.
- bsder 6y ago> YC was started in Boston and worked well there. I would actually argue that this was critical. Boston (and East Coast in general) at that point was a closed ecosystem that had pent up startup founders and no real release valve for those same founders. That gave YC a significant amount of traction before having to scale out.