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Re: New YC homepage

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Post by ncb9094 » Fri, Jan 23, 2026, 9:44 PM UTC

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Re: New YC homepage

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Post by ls-a » Fri, Jan 23, 2026, 9:46 PM UTC

alephnerd wrote: post #5

ls-a wrote: post #4

I found the switch of focus from startups/businesses to founders/CEOs particularly strange. Looks like a political campaign to me.

YC has always been founder first. Back when they started in the 2000s, most traditional VCs didn't recognize that high impact individuals can easily pivot or define product categories, and only concentrated on financial engineering (DCF go brrrrrr ). YC often also mentors founders on pivots (I'd say at least a third of all startups that make it to demo day were mentored into some sort of a pivot). YC also needs to pi…

> YC often also mentors founders on pivots

Interesting. I once talked to an investor (not YC) and they asked me what I would do if the product failed. I said one thing I can do is pivot. And they literally responded with "we don't invest in founders who think about pivoting"

> YC also needs to pivot it's marketing to compete with a16z Speedrun and PeakXV Surge

Maybe. A write up about the new design would be cool I think

> YC has always been founder first.

Internally yes there is a "founder community". But publicly I would argue it was product-first.

Re: New YC homepage

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Post by ripped_britches » Fri, Jan 23, 2026, 9:53 PM UTC

I mean trying to insinuate oai is a yc company is just shady right?

I get that the subtext isn’t dishonest, but cmon, you know what you’re doing

Re: New YC homepage

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Post by trebligdivad » Fri, Jan 23, 2026, 9:56 PM UTC

Impressive collection of embarrassingly young founder pictures :-)

Re: New YC homepage

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Post by scheeseman486 » Fri, Jan 23, 2026, 9:56 PM UTC

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Re: New YC homepage

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Post by hajrice » Fri, Jan 23, 2026, 9:57 PM UTC

Visiting HN brings me back when to when I just started my career as a entrepreneur, I look forward to the nostalgic design it has. Have been familiar w/ YC's & HN design since 2008.

New YC page looks great – but it just doesn't feel "yc" to me.

Re: New YC homepage

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Post by tptacek » Fri, Jan 23, 2026, 9:58 PM UTC

ripped_britches wrote: post #13

I mean trying to insinuate oai is a yc company is just shady right? I get that the subtext isn’t dishonest, but cmon, you know what you’re doing

They were an early funder. Seems p. reasonable for a VC firm to point that out.

Re: New YC homepage

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Post by dmazin » Fri, Jan 23, 2026, 10:00 PM UTC

scheeseman486 wrote: post #15

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Wow – thank you for that.

Re: New YC homepage

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Post by verdverm » Fri, Jan 23, 2026, 10:02 PM UTC

alephnerd wrote: post #5

ls-a wrote: post #4

I found the switch of focus from startups/businesses to founders/CEOs particularly strange. Looks like a political campaign to me.

YC has always been founder first. Back when they started in the 2000s, most traditional VCs didn't recognize that high impact individuals can easily pivot or define product categories, and only concentrated on financial engineering (DCF go brrrrrr ). YC often also mentors founders on pivots (I'd say at least a third of all startups that make it to demo day were mentored into some sort of a pivot). YC also needs to pi…

> YC also needs to pivot

It's been reported that the ratio of mentors to founders had become quite bad. Seems quality has gone down since they tried to scale something that doesn't scale

Re: New YC homepage

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Post by NKosmatos » Fri, Jan 23, 2026, 10:03 PM UTC

Impressive! Seeing all the before and after photos is a nice touch. With regards to the actual web page, white text on light background (partners part) makes it nice easily readable.