Modi: Y Combinator application alone forces vital startup discipline

“Y Combinator, I think is, is really like a national treasure. It's an international treasure because there's so many international founders that come to build their companies in the US. Whether a company gets in or not, it's a great forcing function to tighten up your product value proposition, how you talk about your products, what differentiates you the, you know, the legal structure of your organization, all the good housekeeping that goes into building a durable company that, that is set up right from the beginning and provides value to customers. So I think the application process alone is really, really powerful, but assuming you get into YIC, it's special.”

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