Comment by codegeek
1 year ago
YC's original appeal was for builders/creators who were truly passionate about building a great product that solved a real problem. Dropbox for example at the time.
In my opinion, effectiveness of anything dilutes over time especially as you increase volume. There is no way you can maintain the same level of vetting and quality when you have a batch of 50 vs batch of 500+ which is now where YC is. So they must have to pivot to a different model of vetting companies.
I am curious as to why they continue to do more batches instead of less. Is it really a numbers game now ?
For example, what was the last truly great product out of YC built by a true hacker/team ?
Supabase is one.
It looks like a numbers game. As Brian Chesky said, Silicon Valley have implicitly assumed that scaling a startup meant switching to manager mode. Now, YC seems to be operating in 'Manager Mode.'