> The reason I don't care about business plans is that I can learn more from 5 minutes of interrogating the founders than from 10 pages of fluff they've written

> The reason I don't care about business plans is that I can learn more from 5 minutes of interrogating the founders than from 10 pages of fluff they've written. Presumably Paul isn't meeting with every single founder who is applying to YC. So he must be using a different filtering mechanism to winnow down the funnel. This is usually the role that business plans have often played. As someone who hates writing business plans as well, it would be wonderful if YC released a "here's why you should meet with me" doc template that people can use widely as a replacement for business plans.