I guess what I'm saying is YC would do well to consider funding people with good ideas as much as the ideas themselves. That's a good point. YC does claim to l

I guess what I'm saying is YC would do well to consider funding people with good ideas as much as the ideas themselves. That's a good point. YC does claim to look at people first and then ideas, and really the idea is just evidence that you can have good ideas. But I guess they are also looking for pattern recognition, as in, can you spot the pattern that YC is looking for. That seems to be (in my opinion) smart teams who can tackle a small chunk of a big problem before and during YC, and sell investors the dream of the whole chunk after YC. Think couch surfing app now, disrupting the hotel industry later. Cloud based USB stick now, revolutionize the cloud storage industry later.