This is an absurd criticism. YC “had” money for the same reasons it’s a great institution: the ingenuity and character of its founders (PG, RTM, TB, JG). Money

This is an absurd criticism. YC “had” money for the same reasons it’s a great institution: the ingenuity and character of its founders (PG, RTM, TB, JG). Money is created and how to create money is the same nature of problem as how to create something people want or find highly useful (and then requiring that they indebt themselves to you for it).