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by mwseibel 3416 days ago
I'm not sure I understand your point here. I'm currently working very hard with Adora (my co-group partner) to support the companies in our YC group. Advice, office hours, motivation, community build, and general availability. Are you saying that this work is simply a branding exercise? If so now that the application process if over - why am I not on vacation?
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This reply is disingenuous. It is clearly written what he meant:

>To me YC was a largely branding move. It's fashionable to be able to say "yeah we are YC backed".

Reply to the actual comment instead of setting up a strawman. And, you may want to touch on the other point the parent made, namely incentives being misaligned between YC and startups. Indignation isn't doing the brand any good.

Branding for the companies. I guess that what he meant.