[jerrygenser]

> So it's not like this model is alien to Our Kind Hosts at YC. They understand that this is a crap shoot with a slightly tilted table, but they're optimising for staying out of the zones where everybody else is betting and not that much more.

Do you think this still applies, given recent waves of following the crowd in the last few years like crypto, and now AI? It seems that YC is actually in exactly the same hype zones as everyone else these days.

[leashless]

I'm too far away to know: based in London, mostly working in the legaltech domain, we're far far away from the SV cultural nexus (other than occasional trips to Burning Man for a refresher!)

I think there's a pretty good chance that as their original team is further and further from the operation that they're "reverting to the mean" but I have no evidence.