Why not? Advances in materials, energy, batteries, would be right up Boeing's alley. Diagnostics, communications for planes? What if YC funded a company that ha

Why not? Advances in materials, energy, batteries, would be right up Boeing's alley. Diagnostics, communications for planes? What if YC funded a company that had a novel method to make petroleum extraction 20% faster, cleaner or more efficient? Or could help scale lotus-effect paints to mass production? Or could bring big data/ machine-learning to health care to crunch through our habits and health history to find strange correlations and insights that we wouldn't think of? YC now (publicly) looks like it's working on the ideas and types of companies that the world needs more of. If this shift is real, it opens up YC to smart people without CS degrees. (I know it was before, but it's perception as well) And there are exits, they're just outside of SV. GE, Philips, Exxon, GSK, Pfizer, Bombardier...