Ask HN: What will Y Combinator look like in 3 years?

I am curious to know what people think Ycombinator will look like in the next 3 to 5 years. I think its interesting since Ycombinator is in a number of ways pioneering new ways to scale startups.

3 to 5 years old Y Combinator !!!

Probably much the same. (Why change a recipe that works?) I imagine the largest changes would be:

1. More startups funded. Funding likely from a VC like Sequoia, but the bottleneck here is mentorship time. Which leads to...

2. More staff. Likely successful founders from previous YC rounds. (It's already begun with Harj, Alexis, and Gary.) This would mostly be moving part-time mentors to full-time partners. Something like around 20 "YC fellows.".

3. An office in SF, probably around SoMa. I wouldn't be surprised if YC started holding some office hours there, with the additional staff from (2). (Maybe it's already happening informally.)

And a bunch of other things: Startup School 2x a year, Startup job fairs. PG could have time to write a book about YC.

Would YC ever go the Techstars route and make it a city by city 'franchise'?

Most correct answer; the most efficient was given by depoisfalamos.