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> It's easy to get a rosy view of things, reading Hacker News, as Hacker News is attached to one of the few parts of the USA business community that remains dyn
by ggchappell 12y ago
> It's easy to get a rosy view of things, reading Hacker News, as Hacker News is attached to one of the few parts of the USA business community that remains dynamic.
But isn't YC focused on proving some idea and then getting acquired? YC is thus primarily a pipeline for the enlargement of older, established companies, not a mechanism for creating new companies that will be viable in the long term.
So, if we consider the trend mentioned in these articles to be a problem (and clearly you do), then wouldn't YC -- and, by association, HN -- be more a part of the problem than part of a solution?