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This might have been about average for an HN troll if YC hadn't in fact funded Airbnb.

• jfoster 14y ago
  But 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 ago
    That'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.