[achow]

I cannot reconcile this article with this year's YCombinator stats..

43% of the batch were accepted with only an idea

71% of the batch had zero revenue before YC

https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/meet-the-yc-summer-2022-bat...

Is it about how you behave during the interview and/or your past record (ex. successful serial entrepreneurs)? Otherwise, I do not see any reason why this startup was rejected 5 times and many other startups are accepted presumably first time itself with just an idea or no revenue/customers.

[diceduckmonk]

There is atleast two stops between the two: a working prototype, non-paying customers.