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Opinion
Zen: Y Combinator does not offer the right education for $10M businesses
“So with like Y Combinator, yeah, their content and their approach is applicable because they're going for billion dollar companies. And so if you are trying to build a. Ten million dollar company podcast or something like that, they don't have the right educat…”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Omeed Tabiei: YC SAFEs Erased Lawyers From Pre-Seed Funding Rounds
“I think that lawyers have been removed from the angel pre-seed you know, since quite a long time now. You know, for those 250,000 dollar, 500,000 dollar rounds, most founders, when I talk to them, they're like, I don't think I need a lawyer. I just use this Y …”
Assertion Partly supported
Omeed Tabiei: 18-Year-Old YC Founders Faced Backlash Over Open-Source Violations
“There were these founders that had been admitted to Y Combinator. It was like these two 18 year old kids. And essentially they had forked some technology, some AI wrapper essentially, and they didn't read the source licensing for the code. And essentially they…”
Insight
Founders should reapply to Y Combinator even after seven rejections
“I talk to a lot of, like, YC alumni, and then they say, like, you know, they got rejected many times. They get accepted, like, after three times or four times, even, like, seven times or something. You should apply many times.”