Necessarily? Powerful incumbents can put up artificial barriers, but many times these players can be blindsided by the innovative competition anyway. So is Amer

Necessarily? Powerful incumbents can put up artificial barriers, but many times these players can be blindsided by the innovative competition anyway. So is America's economic system, and the full business environment for internet startups inherently caustic to new business ideas such that you have to work outside the system? And are most YC applicants significantly revolutionary? How many systemic barriers would you expect to hit if you have some insight on how to build the next popular photo sharing app, for example? And if they are applying for YC and answering that question, it's not a safe assumption to make that the founders would have hit up against those barriers yet. A lot of YC founders are barely out of college and just turning their idea into reality.