[sparkzilla]

Actually, that's my point. They were accepted and told that their product was no good straight away, thus forcing them to pivot. So why were they accepted with a poor product, when other applicants who had stronger ideas were turned away?

A selection process that supposedly values the skills of the people over the combination of skills and product will lead to people like this guy not knowing why they were selected, and not being able to handle pivoting. It's something YC should stop doing before it causes real damage.

[tptacek]

You keep saying they were forced to pivot as if you might convince by sheer repetition. They made the choice. They surely didn't have to. For that matter, if they wanted to drop out, they could have.

Your argument seems tendentious.

[spearo77]

tendentious |tɛnˈdɛnʃəs|

adjective

expressing or intending to promote a particular cause or point of view, especially a controversial one: a tendentious reading of history.