1. I think if PG was being honest with himself, he'd admit that they spend only 10 minutes interviewing because he personally wouldn't want to be stuck in a roo

1. I think if PG was being honest with himself, he'd admit that they spend only 10 minutes interviewing because he personally wouldn't want to be stuck in a room with someone he doesn't like for longer. That's a weakness of someone who clearly disdains anyone he views as a lesser mind (see: "culture fit"). Making snap judgments about people seems to be one of his major personality flaws. Steve Jobs had the same flaw, so it's clearly not professionally debilitating, but it is reprehensible nonetheless. 2. YC could make the process less fickle and far more objective by having each startup get interviewed for 10 minutes by each partner, rather than in a high pressure groupthink session. It would cost no more of their time. And of course, they could also just increase the time and interview just as many startups as they want. YC partners could treat it like a real job with hard work, rather than act like lazy VCs. Anyone who has interviewed people knows that first impressions are often wrong, and yet YC bases their decisions entirely on first impressions, which is both funny and sad. 3. It's likely that YC's success is based on their much-more objective application process, and the interview is random noise in the process. It is probably even worse than random noise and YC might be 2-10x more successful just by eliminating the interview stage. 4. PG has no true idea how other YC partners make their decisions, it's likely to be very far from his own process, making his advice inaccurate and harmful to founders.