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I'm fairly certain those companies don't pay for those job listings.

• smackfu 12y ago
  Just because they give them out for free (to a very small specific group of companies) doesn't mean they don't have value.
  • thomasfoster96 12y ago
    Oh yes they certainly have value - but Those job listings aren't ads that pay for servers and bandwidth for hacker news.
    • eli 12y ago
      Depends how you look at it.
    • benologist 12y ago
      Whether that value directly pays for servers or intangibly-or-directly increases their own startups' value doesn't seem like an important distinction.
• kyleblarson 12y ago
  Well, they are YC companies so they pay YC with a pretty significant portion of their equity.