Their notion of "conformity" is too narrow. The startup I was in which made it and IPO'ed was "non-conformist" in a different way: it took a technology which t

Their notion of "conformity" is too narrow. The startup I was in which made it and IPO'ed was "non-conformist" in a different way: it took a technology which the networking graybeards claimed would never work, and said, "yes, it will." YC and these two are in no way, shape, or form "non-conformist" to that degree. They are the Cool Kids Table in the high school cafeteria.