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You would say that, wouldn't you?

• dang 3y ago
  Yes, I'm super interested in reaching people for whom YC would be a great fit, but who don't apply because they doubt themselves. Partly because that's been such a big part of my own experience.
  • Y_Y 3y ago
    My original comment was really meant playfully, I don't think there's any reason to doubt your good intentions. Like many jokes though, there was a grain of earnest feeling there. To be totally pretentious about it, take Koan 16 from The Gateless Gate > Ummon asked: "The world is such a wide world, why do you answer a bell and don ceremonial robes?" If I could rephrase that to "tech startups are so hot, how come you moderate/lurk a forum and just talk about entrepreneurship instead of doing it?", I like to ask it you Dan, or anyone else who thinks YC is cool but isn't quitting their day job to pitch their moonshot.