> YC can bring both home. Yes it can, but being funded by YC isn't the only way to accomplish these goals, yet the author makes it seem like that is the only v

> YC can bring both home. Yes it can, but being funded by YC isn't the only way to accomplish these goals, yet the author makes it seem like that is the only validation of success they will accept. I completely agree with you that the people that win are the ones that want to win, but winning isn't getting into an incubator, it is shipping a successful, profitable product. The author needs to re-frame their metric of success because they don't seem to have a goal of making the product they are working on successful, or rather, they seem to think their product's success is dependent on them getting into YC. The difference between your law school analogy and YC is that people actually care about what law school you attended. When it comes down to it, your customers are unlikely to care that you are a YC funded company, they end up caring about your product's value proposition.