> Then YC became a retirement home for these failed founders, where they confidentially deliver advice they couldn't follow themselves Very interesting take.

> Then YC became a retirement home for these failed founders, where they confidentially deliver advice they couldn't follow themselves Very interesting take. I feel like this might be due to being out of the startup game for too long. You probably move out of startup mode and into teaching/mentoring mode, which is a very different mindset. Perhaps if they rotated the partners every couple of years with recent founders it would help this.