Ways YC has changed in the last year
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Ways YC has changed in the last year
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#3@dang, please change the root link to the nitter thread.
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#4Twitter is such a garbage way to convey this kind of information.
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#5Twitter is such a garbage way to convey this kind of information.
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#6> Before covid, founders often asked us to run YC remotely so that they would't have to move to SF to participate. We never did…[we feel justified in our decision]
Completely ignoring the founders who still have to move, apparently?
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#7YC is a one-trick-pony. If you have a simple product, it can guide you to get users, investors and to scale it up.
But don’t expect anything else. It would not help, if you are outside of that scenario. It easily can screw you, by using any product ideas that you’ve refined and sharing these freely with a relevant startup in the batch.
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#8YC is a one-trick-pony. If you have a simple product, it can guide you to get users, investors and to scale it up. But don’t expect anything else. It would not help, if you are outside of that scenario. It easily can screw you, by using any product ideas that you’ve refined and sharing these freely with a relevant startup in the batch.
> by using any product ideas that you’ve refined and sharing these freely with a relevant startup in the batch.
Do you have an example of this happening in the past?
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#9Twitter is such a garbage way to convey this kind of information.
It’s ridiculous how long a character limit based on text messaging has persisted on that platform and also helped ruin human communication across the globe. It’s just one of those weird butterfly effect moments that aliens would shake their heads at.
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#10It's a risky investment strategy to put so much emphasis on AI startups. Not only do you have the already volatile nature of early-stage software companies (which YC is of course used to), but this is a bet on whether machine learning, chiefly LLMs, are going to continue to outperform other technologies and become sustainable to run.
There's no question in my mind that 'Open'AI is subsidizing the vast majority of LLM research and use today. If the efficacy of LLaMA and its derivatives actually start to approach GPT4+ in any meaningful way, there is quickly going to be a shortage of suitable compute that will completely dwarf the now-subsided Bitcoin mining craze. Plus, untainted training data is going to be harder to find amongst the text contaminated with mountains of early LLM drivel.
As a technology expert, I couldn't in all honesty say that I would want to have money in the YC fund right now. But if it pays off, it could be the biggest software windfall since social networking took off at the beginning of the 2010s.