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Wait, do people assume YCombinator has any standard to their funding? I thought we all knew that it was just a hype machine wrapped around a bog standard VC gro

Wait, do people assume YCombinator has any standard to their funding? I thought we all knew that it was just a hype machine wrapped around a bog standard VC group. Of course they'll fund them, it has a sick name and an idea you can state in 60 seconds, so Plato will probably get sold to a textbook manufacturer or something for 70 billion dollars because it's 2021 and nothing makes sense

paulcole 5y ago
> do people assume YCombinator has any standard to their funding Some people for sure assume this and it’s a testament to the work YC has put into marketing and PR. Just look at HN — a mammoth content marketing project — for a VC fund. Just enough YC propaganda mixed in to where people still believe it’s impartial Hacker News.
- redis_mlc 5y ago
  > Just look at HN — a mammoth content marketing project — for a VC fund. HN has become a leftist/Marxist, post-fact echo chamber. I don't see that as good PR. The actual founders use YC's internal BookFace, not HN.
Grustaf 5y ago
> Wait, do people assume YCombinator has any standard to their funding That is basically the whole point of YC, that their investment gives you a stamp of approval.