I think many people are forgetting a key part, if not THE key part, in the selection process for YC companies, and that's the TEAM. The idea is second to the pe

I think many people are forgetting a key part, if not THE key part, in the selection process for YC companies, and that's the TEAM. The idea is second to the people behind it when PG and company make their selections (and in many cases, YC teams end up going with a totally different idea than what they applied with), at least most of the time. There is far too much focus on selection bias around ideas in both this article and the comments, when in fact PG is simply putting faith in teams that happen to be passionate about certain ideas (that may or may not fall into his ambitious ideas categories).