[skeeter2020]

This shouldn't be surprising; YC is no longer a tight group of like-minded nerds sitting around a table, despite what image they still try to market. It is a giant machine that is growing in both scale and breadth. Where the signaling value used to be very valuable to a particular segment of the population, it's now the same as getting an investment from a prominent traditional VC. Still has value but in a much more general sense.