Well to be fair to Michael, crazy conspiratorial shit does happen in the valley with the big players colluding together: http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/21/so-a-b

Well to be fair to Michael, crazy conspiratorial shit does happen in the valley with the big players colluding together: http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/21/so-a-blogger-walks-into-a-bar/ http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/21/so-a-blogger-walks-into-a-b... I agree though that Michael is taking it a little too far. What's true now, has been, and always will be is that money is king -- all other things, all connections, all politics come second. If YC has a startup in its class that they legitimately think is the next Google, they will fight like animals to get in on it.