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⛷️youcandoit youjustneedtolookatlifeforwhatitis thestoryofyouliving #

[ricky @rickybalmain]

YC is more prestigious than a college degree

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I feel bad for a young buck who thinks anyone in their right mind says that lmao

[Scott Stevenson @scottastevenson]

I have great respect for YC, but need to say what many are surely thinking:

Startup School in a stadium feels antithetical to the YC brand and to what makes startups work.

The YC brand felt like it was designed to filter out status chasers.

The bare Mountain View office. The utilitarian design of Hacker News. Everything about YC said: if you’re a curious hacker, we’re your people. If you’re looking for other kinds of prestige or excitement, we’re not for you.

Great early stage startups are designed the same way: they’re for the people that get a thrill from the work itself, not surrounding fanfare.

If it were just the arena I wouldn’t comment, but you can feel the gravity of a status vortex slowly tearing down what made YC special.

You can feel the herd rushing into an overflowing barn. A stadium sized barn.

You see how YC is now more prestigious than most college degrees. How prestige seekers name drop YC partners. How many YC founders now quit in the early innings—because they didn’t really love the work.

Maybe it’s inevitable. It happens to startups too. Eventually the underestimated, curious, hard working teams become the winning teams. And then the status chasers flock to them.

If YC is not strong enough to fend it off, maybe no one is.

[ricky @rickybalmain]

@xrpl_adam @AaronRDay It be killer if you picked three things and opposed the view, genuinely

[ricky @rickybalmain]

Finally a good tweet

[SMB Attorney @SMB_Attorney]

I’ve never had the chance to read this… worth the time?

[ricky @rickybalmain]

@_robyn_smith Go to the Midwest

[ricky @rickybalmain]

@jordihays @zebulgar @chamath Seeing this in the thread made my day.

[ricky @rickybalmain]

@jonathanzliu Dude, +++, this is reeal. being able to assess and move on is a bueno life skill

[ricky @rickybalmain]

@bb_fresh @theo @grok teach me what these each are

[ricky @rickybalmain]

@cory I don’t meet all the quals but I’d likely do better than the candidate that does

[ricky @rickybalmain]

@eddybuild I think we just over value the way we communicate

[ricky @rickybalmain]

@ashleevance @dwarkesh_sp 1. What did he do to make a living and fund his life while trying to gain traction in these other endeavors he has

2. What are his thoughts to us that come from humble beginnings, a normal education, and few “genius” ties - bootstrapping our lives

[ricky @rickybalmain]

@malonehedges 🎟️to who can monetize without relying on ads or subscriptions