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I guess both perspectives seem completely rational to me. Why shouldn’t Ycombinator care most about viability and why shouldn’t startups care most about vision?
by nonethewiser 4y ago
I guess both perspectives seem completely rational to me. Why shouldn’t Ycombinator care most about viability and why shouldn’t startups care most about vision?
Each side needs to cater to the other a bit but ultimately this is just the difference between funders and builders.
- b112 4y agoWhen a woman is pregnant, the fetus tries to grow as large as possible, while to womb/woman works to restrict growth. Too much of either is not good, so perhaps the same is true here.
- jamiek88 4y agoI think you need to brush up on your reproductive knowledge.
- komadori 4y agoI think the foetus has a vested interest in not growing too large!
- b112 4y agoCannot even remotely understand the logic in this getting flagged. People are upset with the idea, that the mother and the fetus form a feedback loop, to ensure the baby is as large as possible, while still being able to exit the womb?? Yeah, horrible, flaggable idea. Even if one disagrees, what is the logic in flagging? "Ew, ick! Birth!"?!? Bizarre.
- dang 4y ago> the mother and the fetus form a feedback loop, to ensure the baby is as large as possible, while still being able to exit the womb That's quite different from what you said in the GP comment. This is a more neutral way to put it. I've turned off the flags on the GP comment now, but I'm leaving the subthread collapsed because it's off topic.
- dtagames 4y agoI think the complaint here is that the current "mass market" version that treats all founders the same isn't really able to deliver on the promise of helping most of them achieve their vision. If YC makes all its money from tentpoles, the fund doesn't care. But founders probably care.