[ObsoleteMailMan]

This is a bit nuanced, but i'll try to be brief:

- housing in the bay area is substantially more expensive now, so you need to already be pretty qualified in your role to justify your cost - this partially goes against Paul Buchheit's old point that startups allow you to do work you'd otherwise be unqualified to do - because startups work on building (rather than maintaining) products, the tech skills that startups want are different from the tech skills engineers in big companies are using - universities aren't really making up the difference

Options: - YC makes its own university for engineers/scientists

This goes along Alan Kay's point about not relying on vendors. If there's a particular skillset that YC cos want early engineers to have and people don't have it (at the scale YC collectively wants), it may make sense to teach it.

[roguecoder]

San Francisco needs to build some frikken housing if it wants to keep adding jobs. That so much of the city is covered in single family homes is an affront to everyone trying to work here.