YC is not in the business of 'safe bets'. You need only look at the backgrounds of many of YC's most successful companies to see how wrongheaded that perspectiv

YC is not in the business of 'safe bets'. You need only look at the backgrounds of many of YC's most successful companies to see how wrongheaded that perspective is. Full disclosure: Several friends have done YC, none are Stanford/MIT, all first time founders.