Great story of perseverance but applying 4 times and getting interviewed 4 times on 3 trips is hardly embarrassing. I'm working on my 7th YC app with no interv

Great story of perseverance but applying 4 times and getting interviewed 4 times on 3 trips is hardly embarrassing. I'm working on my 7th YC app with no interviews to date, but I've used every one of those rejections to become better as a founder and advance my startup, tinj. The reality is that all the previous rejections were deserved, YC would have hurt more than it helped because we would have accelerated in the wrong direction. Rejection for founders isn't embarrassing, but not learning from it is.