[grawprog]

I've never applied for YC funding, or any kind of seed funding, I don't know much about the world of startups but

>YC evaluators are explicitly biased. There is such a thing as unconscious bias. We know and understand this in the racial domain.

Yes they are, everyone is, it's the way of it.

Yes they know who they want to give their money to. In the end like anyone else, whether it's a job interview or applying for grants, which I have done, or applying for seed funding, who you are compared to the values of the people you are applying to matters.

You can be 110% qualified and not 'fit the culture' and be rejected. It's just the way of life and something everyone really should just accept because it will never change.

You can and will be rejected from things in life because of things you cannot change and sometimes you will have no idea why and you will never get an explanation. Or, if you're lucky, you will get an explanation that essentially amounts to 'I dunno I just don't like the cut of your jibe.' That's life for ya though.

[cudgy]

Based on your description, YC will remain stuck with the same demographics forever and noone that meets those metrics should bother applying. Case closed.

[grawprog]

Yeah...I'd say so. They're a bunch of people with lots of money, trying to make more money, that's reality.

All this wishy, washy feelings bullshit the world is focused on doesn't really matter when it comes to making money when it involves people with lots of money. That shit doesn't actually matter to the people in power. That's just for the peasants to distract themselves with so.they spend more money making the people with money more money.

All that matters to any VC providing seed funding is, 'will I make money?' That's it. That's the only thing that matters. Who you are, your story, your bullshit...Nah...that's just marketing you use to make those rich fucks invest in you in the hopes that you all make money.

That's the truth of YC or any other person offering money to your company in exchange for future profits.

Who you are only matters as far as 'will who you are make profit?'

If it won't well, you're shit outta luck buds.