I dunno, I toyed with the starting phase of YC application a couple years ago, and started working my way through what was involved in their application process

I dunno, I toyed with the starting phase of YC application a couple years ago, and started working my way through what was involved in their application process and reading their materials, even watching some YouTube content, etc. I didn't really see how a business that was starting from a more R&D angle would make it through. And a lot of it seemed really pitched to the bizdev "hustler" founder personality, not to engineers/nerds.