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"the founders of those companies will generally tell you he has been their best source" Honest question: if a company receives investment from Peter Thiel, do the founders have any choice but to express the opinion above?
They could choose to say nothing (and often do about lesser investors).
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I disagree. I have 4 kids, I have been married for 15 and my co-founder had a 3 months old when we did YC. And we are from Portugal, so we were away from our families when we went through YC. It was hard and it required sacrifice, but it was certainly worth it and YC was super supportive. Our lives, and the lives of our kids are much better for it.
You say you disagree, but your experience doesn't support that. "It was hard and it required sacrifice." because of the implicit bias brought up by the GP. For someone in their mid twenties, no relationship or dependents, moving for 3 months is no big deal. Good, even.
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I disagree. I have 4 kids, I have been married for 15 and my co-founder had a 3 months old when we did YC. And we are from Portugal, so we were away from our families when we went through YC. It was hard and it required sacrifice, but it was certainly worth it and YC was super supportive. Our lives, and the lives of our kids are much better for it.
You say you disagree, but your experience doesn't support that. "It was hard and it required sacrifice." because of the implicit bias brought up by the GP. For someone in their mid twenties, no relationship or dependents, moving for 3 months is no big deal. Good, even.
Thiel joining makes YC look like the 1992 Olympics "Dream Team" compared to all of the other accelerators.
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All those are valid. One you forgot: YC, like nearly all other accelerators, is implicitly age-ist. Note that I said implicitly. There is no explicit age discrimination that I am aware of, but the entire program is structured in a way that makes it horribly impractical for anyone who isn't a bachelor/bachelorette and childless. You must move to the Bay Area, put in family-unfriendly hours, and live on a quantity of m…
I think one reason you don't see a lot of older folks applying to YC is not necessarily for this reason. The most talented older people, the ones who would be getting into YC anyway, presumably have been in the industry for 20 years. When you've been around that long, you tend to already have plenty of connections. You're already tapped into the silicon valley network. So why bother going the route of YC if you can a…
Thiel joining makes YC look like the 1992 Olympics "Dream Team" compared to all of the other accelerators.
Taking a contrarian viewpoint. Does the convergence of all talent into one team actually reduce the innovation in the startup ecosystem. Similar to your sports analogy, the best games result when multiple talented teams fight it out. If all startups that become big are YC-funded, then we might see just the YC-influenced style of running a company whereas other models may not see the light of the day.
Thiel joining makes YC look like the 1992 Olympics "Dream Team" compared to all of the other accelerators.
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Depends. Is somebody who decries the extension of franchise to women because they don't adhere to libertarian views somebody that you'd willingly associate with? Personally, I wouldn't, because I like looking myself in the mirror, but your mileage may certainly vary.
So you support marginalizing people who have views you don't like? That's not at all horrifying...
(The anti-poor thing is disgusting, too, but I mean, at least there's an argument there.)