That's simply not true. The process is highly selective. Though maybe they only select from 20 year old inexperienced people on purpose (I'm in early 30s)? Othe

That's simply not true. The process is highly selective. Though maybe they only select from 20 year old inexperienced people on purpose (I'm in early 30s)? Otherwise, I can't reconcile observable reality with what you're describing. I've applied to 100s of incubators and seed investors over 10 years and got 2 interviews (one was from A16z though... What are the odds?) and my CV as a tech person is excellent (with a proven track record in a startup and in open source) and I've been hustling pretty hard to get interviews (e.g. attending company events where I knew the VCs would be going and talking to them). I never got any seed funding from any VC. Then I bootstrapped my project myself and it was enough of a success to allow me to not work... It could have been a far bigger success with funding.