[hopler]

It's interesting that YC's moneymaking model is to take small companies and turn them into big companies (by growth or acquisition) that pg claims are bad. Is YC a knnowing scam to soak dumb money, killing the supposedly wonderful small-team products in the process, or is the post misguided or disingenuous?

[lmm]

The claim is that big companies are uninspiring drudgery for the people who work there, not that scaling up isn't an effective way to make money (though VC as a category is known for poor overall returns). There's no contradiction - indeed in http://www.paulgraham.com/schlep.html pg argues that a lot of moneymaking opportunities are overlooked because of the drudgery involved.