Comment by sebmellen

2 months ago

Trust me, you can lie and get away with it if you go through YC and dropped out of a top university. Garry Tan blocked me on X for pointing this out. It's a big club, and you ain't in it!

Fortunately, some of the old-YC spirit seems to be alive here on HN still.

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jvwww  2 months ago

They likely barely had a product when they applied to YC. It's more interesting as to why this wasn't discovered (if it is even true) when they were raising their Series A.

  • sebmellen  2 months ago

    Well that's what I'm saying. The problem is if you went through YCombinator there's very little diligence when raising your Series A. I've seen it happen for a couple of startups that I was tangentially involved in.