or be me
>didn't finish high school
>never worked a job in my life
>just obsessed over product
>got backed by YC after 5 attempts
yc optimizes for selecting the serious founders who'd do it regardless of getting backed
the grifters just disqualify themselves
yc doesn’t reject
nice but 99% of what YC cares about is uni and past big tech companies.
they stopped betting on underdogs a while ago. esp when there's a wave of grads rn that isn't getting picked up by big tech. I keep on seeing good ideas rejected and slop accepted
I just dropped out of high school, to help my teachers.
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10 hours left. your yc application sucks.
now I know that after seeing this post, you'll be in my DMs asking me to review your YC app (i won't)
that's why we're releasing early access to our new tool to rip apart your YC application, right inside your google doc.
it's like
people keep asking me why we pivoted
no, it's not that @vibegrade wasn't doing well
in fact, we're making more money than ever with less effort
6.7% of users who grade their first essay become a paid customer
before that, a signed up user has only a 2.7% chance of converting