being a founder puts the question of whether you’re ultra ambitious to the test or if you were just locally optimal ambitious in the pond you were previously in
typically becoming a vc after a few years is a silent admission you’re in the latter
ever since i was a little girl, all i ever wanted was to be a yc founder. my parents are yc founders, my grandparents are yc founders. my great grandparents arrived on a boat to the us to become yc founders.
moving to sf and being a yc founder has been such a life changing event