I think that "A lot of people want to replicate YC in some other industry or some other place or with some other strategy" is a bit of a narrow lens. Maybe peo

I think that "A lot of people want to replicate YC in some other industry or some other place or with some other strategy" is a bit of a narrow lens. Maybe people are replicating it, but it doesn't look real obvious like billionaires in SV and their flagship investments. It can be replicated in ideas that spread, which don't need VC and people can set up shop without them. Unknown companies that bootstrap up using strategies that would be barely known on HN. Sort of like the dark matter of capital, where 99.9% is dark matter.