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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.