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Love this comment - really insightful. We did YC ourselves, and I guess there are two points here where I think YC can help improve things further. 1) Regardin
by utdiscant 6y ago
Love this comment - really insightful. We did YC ourselves, and I guess there are two points here where I think YC can help improve things further.
1) Regarding getting other YC companies as your customers, I don't think there is a really great mechanism for that yet. With a network of thousands of founders, it is hard to pitch your company to the YC network without it becoming spam.
2) I agree that we learned most from companies relatively similar to ours. But it is also clear now that there is a lot of direct competitors within the YC network. I don't see a way to avoid that, but it feels important to think about at this scale.
Thanks for running YC, and thanks for scaling it!
- breck 6y ago> there is a lot of direct competitors within the YC network I would never view other small startups in the space as competitors. I would view them as 1) people that will help lower our r&d costs b/c you can watch them 2) potential companies that could acquire you if they turn out to be executing better 3) potential companies that you could acquire if you turn out to be executing better.
- mnd999 6y agoTrue, if others think what you’re doing is a good idea and the want to do it too, it’s probably a good idea.