That's the hope. Though I'm a big PG fan, I'm no PG. My thinking is that my experiment can extract a few more people into the startup mindset (and clearly,

That's the hope. Though I'm a big PG fan, I'm no PG. My thinking is that my experiment can extract a few more people into the startup mindset (and clearly, there's some upside for me too). In my experience, simply resisting the temptation to jump into big company land is a huge step. If possible, I'd like to make it really hard for great hackepreneurs to revert to a big company job simply because they didn't make it in to YC.