If you go through the most recent YC batches, it's insane how much of their "customer list" is just other companies in the same or recent batches
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#13If you go through the most recent YC batches, it's insane how much of their "customer list" is just other companies in the same or recent batches
It's the YC playbook. I guess it works, Corgi for example a "AI" insurance company with like only 5 real engineers and a bunch of growth people. Their main customer is other startups mostly YC. Same with Delve.
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#14I was genuienly confused till the pricing and tipping section.
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#15If you go through the most recent YC batches, it's insane how much of their "customer list" is just other companies in the same or recent batches
Yeah, they raise a massive round on traction from other YC companies then need to find the real Product Market Fit (enterprise and others) after that round. It's actually very inefficient
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#16If you go through the most recent YC batches, it's insane how much of their "customer list" is just other companies in the same or recent batches
Yeah, they raise a massive round on traction from other YC companies then need to find the real Product Market Fit (enterprise and others) after that round. It's actually very inefficient
The flywheel!
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
The moving of money across time is 100% central to money's value. Passing digital money around to cook the books is moving money... fraudulently. So yeah, they're not the same unless you're goaling on the semantic purity of the word "move".
I'm confused how circulating legal tender between 2 parties could be cooking books or fraud. Each party can absolutely claim they made money from the transaction. The fact they lost money in a different transaction is a separate concern.
Gross Revenue is sometimes passed off as Revenue in reports, until you examine the fine print.
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#18It says something about the state of the world that I was genuinely uncertain whether this was actually a joke right until the last paragraph. Very well done.
I too was nervous until I clicked through and had a read.
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#19If you go through the most recent YC batches, it's insane how much of their "customer list" is just other companies in the same or recent batches
One of Micheal and Dalton video does address this
Even if you larp revenue, when you get acquired or go public auditors will figure stuff out. Or worse you go to prison. Its like cheating in college-youre just hurtung yourself and others
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#20It worked for NVidia.
The creator of this has a good note on how the Nvidia situation relates, under his diagram of their circular deal:
"To be clear: every deal here is legal, publicly announced, and defended by the people in it — Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called the structure "nothing inappropriate in principle." Critics compare the pattern to 1990s dot-com vendor financing and warn it can inflate the appearance of demand. As Bloomberg puts it, a circular deal is legally different from a fraudulent "round-trip" — regulators' term for sham trades with no economic substance designed to inflate results. LARP is a joke about the round-trip. This is the legal cousin it rhymes with."