Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by boobs2 5934 days ago
ycombinator makes sense for 2 kinds of people: 1) people who did not go to stanford/mit/etc. (if you went to those schools and you can't get a meeting with Sequoia, or anyone you want, you don't know what you are doing and should not be an entrepreneur.) 2) first time entrepreneurs who are age 24 and under and thus, do not know what they are doing as entrepreneurs. And thus need guidance.

for both of those subgroups of people, it makes a lot of sense.

ironically, you can only get into ycombinator if you went to stanford or other top university. hahaha... this will get refuted big time by the one or two cases where it is not true; but I'm sure it is largely true.

2 comments

What are your chances if you went to an Ivy but were a biologist there? ^-^
good. in general with startups its not about what you studied its about where you went.

wow. im very cynical this evening. I shall spare you all my wrath and go to sleep now. I better go to sleep soon or I will have more enemies than Jason C pretty soon...

zzz...