YC Interviews in NYC
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YC Interviews in NYC
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#2I remember going to YCNYC nearly 10 years ago, and pg made the argument that anyone starting a company should just move to the Bay Area because it was that much better. I guess NYC has come a long way, or YC has, or both :)
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#3Great way to cut down on YC's carbon footprint, while also saving everyone some travel time.
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#4A couple of thoughts come to mind - are you doing this because there is a dip in the number / quality of applicants being SF-only, or are you hoping to grow YC on top of the SF-base with these new "hubs". (i.e. have we reached peak "good ideas" in the US?)
Second thought - I need to get my butt into gear ...
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#5I remember going to YCNYC nearly 10 years ago, and pg made the argument that anyone starting a company should just move to the Bay Area because it was that much better. I guess NYC has come a long way, or YC has, or both :)
This is just for the interviews, I believe accepted companies are still expected to move to the Bay Area (at least for the duration of their batch)
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#6Great first steps.
Any plans to have one in a "no visa required" location for people from other parts?
The struggle and stress attending YC interviews puts on Nigerian founders is - to put it mildly, very unfair.
Rwanda, Ethiopia and Kenya are 2 countries with visa on arrival for everyone and a great air network.[1]
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#7I remember going to YCNYC nearly 10 years ago, and pg made the argument that anyone starting a company should just move to the Bay Area because it was that much better. I guess NYC has come a long way, or YC has, or both :)
pg wrote an article called "Cities and Ambition"[1] which greatly influenced my thinking on the importance of being around a critical mass of like-minded people, not just for the 1st-order effects of having the right networks and opportunities, but also for the 2nd-order effects of being subtly influenced by the intellectual energy around you.
(Side note: Eric Weiner wrote a Malcolm-Gladwell-like book "The Geography of Genius" on a similar topic; for a funny but insightful review see this review [2] where the reviewer terms this genre "American-Folksy")
These effects do shift, e.g. as mentioned in the article, Florence was the place to be for art during the Renaissance, but not so much today. NY is a big city that's constantly reinventing itself, and the gravity of tech importance has been moving toward NYC for a while now.
But as of right now, SV is still dominant.
[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/cities.html
[2] https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R3KMN29SZX9ZKS/re...
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#8A couple of thoughts come to mind - are you doing this because there is a dip in the number / quality of applicants being SF-only, or are you hoping to grow YC on top of the SF-base with these new "hubs". (i.e. have we reached peak "good ideas" in the US?) Second thought - I need to get my butt into gear ...
Neither! We travel all over the world doing outreach and we figured we might as well interview people while we're out there.
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#9I remember going to YCNYC nearly 10 years ago, and pg made the argument that anyone starting a company should just move to the Bay Area because it was that much better. I guess NYC has come a long way, or YC has, or both :)
I was there too. I remember being disappointed that PG came all that way just to tell us all to move to the Bay Area.
IIRC, he went so far as to say that NYC would never be able to offer the community and serendipity of being surrounded by so many fellow entrepreneurs. And that NYC was too tainted by its banking culture and the drive to make money.
Of course, everyone is entitled to their opinion. NYC has come a long way!
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#10I remember going to YCNYC nearly 10 years ago, and pg made the argument that anyone starting a company should just move to the Bay Area because it was that much better. I guess NYC has come a long way, or YC has, or both :)
I was there too. I remember being disappointed that PG came all that way just to tell us all to move to the Bay Area. IIRC, he went so far as to say that NYC would never be able to offer the community and serendipity of being surrounded by so many fellow entrepreneurs. And that NYC was too tainted by its banking culture and the drive to make money. Of course, everyone is entitled to their opinion. NYC has come a long…
Lol did he really claim that SV wasn't about making money? That's rich.