Betts-Lacroix: Y Combinator accepts fantastic founders with terrible ideas
Joe Betts-Lacroix · Cory Doctorow and Joe Betts-Lacroix on Adversarial Interoperability · Y Combinator · Nov 27, 2019 · at 55:37
YC Expert Joe Betts-Lacroix explains Y Combinator's admissions philosophy regarding founder quality versus original startup idea quality.
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“A lot of founders come into the YC with terrible ideas but they're like, sometimes when they're fantastic founders, they're like, let's just accept them anyway, because I know that The, when they're exposed to the richness of this network and the community here, they'll realize, oh, there's a much cooler thing to do.”
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