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Why are you so eager to finance J.K. Rowlings second book? The new Airbnb is always the first book.
by atirip 14y ago
Why are you so eager to finance J.K. Rowlings second book? The new Airbnb is always the first book.
- dylangs1030 14y agoDo you have anything real to cite for a statement like this? You sound more like someone bitter than someone who actually has a clear head and some level evidence to leverage a negative point about Y Combinator's selection process.
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- gruseom 14y agoThis might have been about average for an HN troll if YC hadn't in fact funded Airbnb.
- jfoster 14y agoBut mightn't it still be a good point? I'm not sure what the Airbnb founders had achieved prior to Airbnb, but anyone with a substantial enough success mightn't need to go through YC next time. For example, once the Airbnb founders move on, would they go through YC for their next venture? They probably wouldn't need to, right?
- gruseom 14y agoThat's not how I read his comment. I read it as insinuating that YC are only eager to fund derivative companies, as opposed to, say, Airbnb – which they did fund.