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Do not mistake any VC's eagerness to find fresh meat for the grinder for a philanthropic or otherwise virtuous motive. VC exists for one purpose only. Extract value from others.
There are far worse gigs than VC backed founder.
> The Early Access Network is an invite-only group of senior technology leaders who want to see what's coming before it's on anyone's shortlist. > Four times a year, we put a hand-picked group of YC's enterprise-AI founders in a room with buyers who can actually run a pilot. Fall 2026 kicks off on October 22 in San Francisco. Hi Claude!
AI copy from the AI company incubator is hardly the worse sin
Wonder if people going to this will have the same infamous sense of arrogance and entitlement that is common to Y combinator folks? Source: https://x.com/mcuban/status/692595120969875456
Wonder if people going to this will have the same infamous sense of arrogance and entitlement that is common to Y combinator folks? Source: https://x.com/mcuban/status/692595120969875456
Hot take but I don't mind startup founders being plucky and a bit arrogant/naieve. They need it.
It's been obvious for years that AI will bifurcate society even more between the haves and have nots, contrary to "democratizing AI" niceties espoused by big AI CEOs. It was less obvious that access will be further gated by an Old Boy Network. I guess the frontier model whitelists of yestermonth were a portent.
> The Early Access Network is an invite-only group of senior technology leaders who want to see what's coming before it's on anyone's shortlist. > Four times a year, we put a hand-picked group of YC's enterprise-AI founders in a room with buyers who can actually run a pilot. Seems like a win-win.
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It's been obvious for years that AI will bifurcate society even more between the haves and have nots, contrary to "democratizing AI" niceties espoused by big AI CEOs. It was less obvious that access will be further gated by an Old Boy Network. I guess the frontier model whitelists of yestermonth were a portent.
Isn’t it just for rich kids whose dads lead the round?
> The Early Access Network is an invite-only group of senior technology leaders who want to see what's coming before it's on anyone's shortlist. > Four times a year, we put a hand-picked group of YC's enterprise-AI founders in a room with buyers who can actually run a pilot. Fall 2026 kicks off on October 22 in San Francisco. Hi Claude!