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by usegolang 3230 days ago
It's funny that your second metric appears to be one that many might disagree with. I think PG once said something along the lines of - if every company accepted into YC is raising we aren't taking enough chances on longshots.

Basically, they want more Airbnb longshots along with what look like safer bets, and often those longshots have a hard time raising cause it seems so far fetched.