“Local founders/investors are annoyed by the gate-keeping role that YC is unintentionally playing. This role is being reinforced by market-ignorant – often fore

“Local founders/investors are annoyed by the gate-keeping role that YC is unintentionally playing. This role is being reinforced by market-ignorant – often foreign – investors,” was another. Definition of Gatekeeping: the activity of controlling, and usually limiting, general access to something. The internet tells me there isn't really an antonym for this word, which makes me feel better about failing to think up any myself. But I would imagine YC is serving to open a way for foreign money to flow in, not serving to control, limit and decide whom to let in or keep out. If that is accurate, they really should do some research and write about that to educate people that "We absolutely aren't gatekeeping anything here. If people are using our activities as a proxy metric for what to throw money at themselves without doing a lot of research on their own, that's not us gatekeeping anything whatsoever." I'm short of sleep and not heavily invested in creating some free PR resources for a multi-billion dollar company, but I imagine it would take a bit of research to come up with a good concept or metaphor to do this justice. However, it would likely be well worth the time spent on it in terms of making people in foreign countries feel more at ease with their activities. I'm sure there are legitimate concerns on the ground in Africa about (things like) the potential impact of foreign money and foreign expertise flowing in without a lot of context and local knowledge to inform those choices. But this idea that YC is gatekeeping something is probably flat out wrong in a way that essentially drags their name through the mud baselessly.