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Nope, it is to have multiple Harvard degrees, worked at top law firm, run a company, been featured in a magazine article, and already built a product that has p
by Jd 14y ago
Nope, it is to have multiple Harvard degrees, worked at top law firm, run a company, been featured in a magazine article, and already built a product that has paying customers.
- fitandfunction 14y ago+ be a banker in HK
- pitt1980 14y agoso how helpful is an article that says the real key is to just generally be awesome at everything? True or false, the people who get into havard are the people who don't need to go to harvard? the people who get into YC, are the people who don't need YC?
- fitandfunction 14y agoIt helps to set expectations. Getting into YC as two MIT undergrads who've been coding since kindergarten is very hard. Getting in a solo business founder is much harder. So, if you don't have a track record of doing incredible stuff, you should a) calibrate your expectations, and b) start doing incredible stuff (and apply later)
- pitt1980 14y agoI think the better take is to not treat YC as the gatekeeper to your success, 1. Its hard to get into 2. tons of great companies have been started that didn't go through YC (in fact with a few exceptions almost all of them) 3. its a great opportunity, but most of the companies that get into YC, don't amount to jack just getting in doesn't mean you've made it, and there is no reason you can't make if you don't calculus is similar to what I'd tell a high school kid about going to Harvard, if you happen to get to go cool, its a great opportunity, but you shouldn't treat that as the gatekeeper to your success