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> The hard thing is to increase the batch size while also keeping the quality of companies the same or better. To do that, we need to attract more great applications every batch. That's what we need to do.

You need to illustrate the path from tech employee -> founder for more people in some sort of go to resource. Why should an intelligent, capable person drop their $300k TC career when it looks like their chances of failing are 90%, and an opportunity cost of at least $1M, even if one gets into YC? What is one in for: hours, health insurance, managing employees, difficulty competing against entrenched companies, etc?

Unless you want to specifically filter out all candidates with a hint of risk-averseness or something else not explicit...