[zackbrown]

> If you’re doing badly, why would you want to keep working on this for 24 or 36 months?

Doesn't this run exactly contrary to the prevailing YC wisdom that "those who stay in the game are those who win?"

While pivoting in search of P/M fit, every startup is doing badly — until they're not.

Would you really suggest to pack it in after 12 months without traction or luck? Instead of pivoting and adapting? How many of YC's Top 100 wouldn't exist today if they operated by that advice?

[akharris]

I don't agree that that's the prevailing wisdom at YC. As with any other broadly stated piece of advice, the specifics matter.

I think about this in this way: https://blog.ycombinator.com/shutting-down/.