My take is that YC can’t afford not to operate that way. My impression is the Decision Matrix looks like. High Low Execution Executio

My take is that YC can’t afford not to operate that way. My impression is the Decision Matrix looks like. High Low Execution Execution Good Maybe No Idea Bad Maybe No Idea The idea does not matter much because it is easy to use an external source for ideas when a team has a bad idea or no idea. On the other hand, there’s no external way to fix low execution. The other thing is that it is often hard to tell good new ideas from bad new ideas in the context of startups. So idea is often a weak signal. As the GP argued, everyone has startup ideas.