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you need to graduate from the "right school/alumni" and i would discourage anybody else from wasting their time

by spxneo 2y ago

dang 2y ago
That's definitely not true (I wouldn't be here if it were), and it's mistaken assumptions like this that I'm hoping my post can nudge some people out of. If you noticed any of these phrases in what I wrote: "lack of credentials", "needn't look impressive", "doesn't look like", "nothing else", "out of nowhere", "you're already yourself"...that's why I put all those in there. Edit: oh and "impostor syndrome" of course.
- spxneo 2y ago
  you are an outlier and the stuff you wrote is marketing fluff
HaZeust 2y ago
As much as the YC app is gamed (based on winning applications I've seen from friends and strangers), alumnist is only one piece of the puzzle of a few.
- spxneo 2y ago
  im not saying you have to graduate from ivy league to get into YC but bulk majority of people in YC are. they are almost always going to favour people from their own league. im basing this off people who are coming from YC and telling me how it is. some folks applied to YC in the past, get rejected and then find some Harvard graduate running with their ideas they submitted.
  - willsmith72 2y ago
    isn't this just correlation vs causation? 2 people submit the same idea. 1 gets in, the other doesn't. yc, basing their decision on the founder themselves and not so much the idea, chose person 1, who had more of the founder characteristics (determination, ... i forget the rest). maybe there's a higher chance that between 2 people, 1 from harvard 1 not, the harvard person has those characteristics. could be they "learnt" it there, or they had to use those same skills to even get into harvard, or whatever. but it doesn't mean they got in because of the harvard degree apply that same logic of thousands of people, maybe it looks like they prefer harvard candidates.
    - spxneo 2y ago
      correlation doesn't rule out causation and anecdotes should be heeded with caution. to YC you are just another lotto ticket out of the thousands of founders, be very wary about divulging information such as finances or what works. its akin to going to a hedge fund, letting them in on an edge you discovered, and expecting them to not trade on that information without you.
tptacek 2y ago
No right school/alumni people at Fly.io (W20). I don't even got no learnin'.
- spxneo 2y ago
  great. now lets ask the other 97% in YC what school they dropped out/graduated from.
  - tptacek 2y ago
    Your theory here is that YC just has a weird soft spot for the University of Oklahoma? It's a program you apply to get into. That's what strivers do: apply to get into things. Of course there are lots of college strivers there.
    - spxneo 2y ago
      You are not reading what I wrote and instead replying to continue pushing that false narrative we've established here to be untrue: that most in YC aren't from an unknown university. Your insistence only confirms the rumours, does not dispel it.

you need to graduate from the "right school/alumni" and i would discourage anybody else from wasting their time

by spxneo 2y ago

you need to graduate from the "right school/alumni" and i would discourage anybody else from wasting their time

dang 2y ago

That's definitely not true (I wouldn't be here if it were), and it's mistaken assumptions like this that I'm hoping my post can nudge some people out of. If you noticed any of these phrases in what I wrote: "lack of credentials", "needn't look impressive", "doesn't look like", "nothing else", "out of nowhere", "you're already yourself"...that's why I put all those in there. Edit: oh and "impostor syndrome" of course.

spxneo 2y ago
you are an outlier and the stuff you wrote is marketing fluff

HaZeust 2y ago

As much as the YC app is gamed (based on winning applications I've seen from friends and strangers), alumnist is only one piece of the puzzle of a few.

spxneo 2y ago
im not saying you have to graduate from ivy league to get into YC but bulk majority of people in YC are. they are almost always going to favour people from their own league. im basing this off people who are coming from YC and telling me how it is. some folks applied to YC in the past, get rejected and then find some Harvard graduate running with their ideas they submitted.
- willsmith72 2y ago
  isn't this just correlation vs causation? 2 people submit the same idea. 1 gets in, the other doesn't. yc, basing their decision on the founder themselves and not so much the idea, chose person 1, who had more of the founder characteristics (determination, ... i forget the rest). maybe there's a higher chance that between 2 people, 1 from harvard 1 not, the harvard person has those characteristics. could be they "learnt" it there, or they had to use those same skills to even get into harvard, or whatever. but it doesn't mean they got in because of the harvard degree apply that same logic of thousands of people, maybe it looks like they prefer harvard candidates.
  - spxneo 2y ago
    correlation doesn't rule out causation and anecdotes should be heeded with caution. to YC you are just another lotto ticket out of the thousands of founders, be very wary about divulging information such as finances or what works. its akin to going to a hedge fund, letting them in on an edge you discovered, and expecting them to not trade on that information without you.

tptacek 2y ago

No right school/alumni people at Fly.io (W20). I don't even got no learnin'.

spxneo 2y ago
great. now lets ask the other 97% in YC what school they dropped out/graduated from.
- tptacek 2y ago
  Your theory here is that YC just has a weird soft spot for the University of Oklahoma? It's a program you apply to get into. That's what strivers do: apply to get into things. Of course there are lots of college strivers there.
  - spxneo 2y ago
    You are not reading what I wrote and instead replying to continue pushing that false narrative we've established here to be untrue: that most in YC aren't from an unknown university. Your insistence only confirms the rumours, does not dispel it.