I've been reading PG's stuff since way before YCombinator existed, and that was my initial analysis of YCombinator. First of all, my belief was that PG graduat

I've been reading PG's stuff since way before YCombinator existed, and that was my initial analysis of YCombinator. First of all, my belief was that PG graduated from five different colleges around the world because he liked being around smart young people, and to continue to be in a college-like atmosphere of optimistic young people without going to school in the U.S. and Europe for yet another degree, he started YCombinator, where he convinces smart young people to come to him, which is a much more efficient way of being around smart young people. Another way I've thought about it was that PG was like a manager of boy bands of 2-4 young people, who try to entertain fellow college men instead of young girls (and later on, the general population, once their "act"/app caught on). These bands couldn't always sing, but they used technology to help them get a marketable product out, similar to how startups make up for their inexperience by using frameworks and web services to make their product improve, so they could continue to release "new records" regularly. Over time, I've found that both the number of startups YCombinator has launched and the addition of the jobs page to news.ycombinator has shown that PG is actually not like a manager of boy bands, because the companies hire their own people and PG does not micromanage every decision, from what I understand. Also, I've noticed that media articles now describe these companies as their own beings, without always mentioning that these companies are part of YCombinator, something that is different from when YCombinator first started.