[version_five]

Yes your comment better captures what I was trying to say here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32772702

It's not like they're excited they get to help people do better CRM, they're just excited they got in, and (not uniquely) appear to have crafted an optimized offering designed to get into YC, which I don't think is YCs (at least initial) intention nor do I think it's desirable. It's a signal that it's "jumped the shark" and it's time to move on to a new construct

[andrewguenther]

Hah, I just replied to your comment as well. I appreciate that you pointed out that this isn't a problem unique to YC. At some point, people are just chasing prestige. Considering YCs rapid growth over the last few years, I'm not surprised this is happening, but given the nature of the business it could be a long time before the patterns become apparent. There are more live YC companies today than there are exited/failed ones. I worry the time it will take for issues in the process to become apparent may be too later for them.