[nxzero]

How's YC getting a deal for the companies it's funding a slight to all startups? It's not like YC is free or that it's easy to get into YC. DO is doing the deal because they're hoping to cash out servicing a hyper growth company; which in turn would subsidize small fish using DO. Understand the feeling, just don't see the logic.

[voidlogic]

I read the OPs concern as saying: as a non-YC DO customer, he doesn't like the fact he is providing revenue to a company that is giving services away (the same he pays for) to a group of companies that doesn't include his, and may even be a competitor.