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Email is in. They said no.
Taking a moment to rant about how goddamn miserable it is to apply to YC. I’ve done this process multiple times.
And worst of all it’s an enormous distraction. (coming from a founder whose raised millions)
A. Fucking. Thread.
2: hidden rules
yc is designed as a nudge to get HYPS+n engineers to quit faang/big yc exit companies.
the bias prerogative leans towards pre-product college roommates
The angle is biased against founders working on startups full time bc their metrics are under closer scrutiny
1: you lose a fuckton of time writing your application
The application is really fucking hard. It’s short but requires an intense amount of thought to get right. (prompt: no yapping)
Brevity is the soul of wit
4: it’s way easier to raise traditional vc
tradvc is a bunch of dart throwing chimps. They give way better terms too
Yet the shitty term sheet yc offers is so much more appealing
TLDR I have a lot of respect for yc but getting rejected sucks and tanks team spirit. Especially when you’re working extremely hard and making great progress
You end up spending a lot of time optimizing for games which basically means you’re grifting.
Don’t grift. Build.
context: I’ve applied to yc 4 times (1 late, 3 with interviews)
each time the interview was a bust.
I’ve probably sunk somewhere around a week of fulltime work into filming vid and wordsmithing applications across them all